Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force was the headquarters of the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, in northwest Europe, from late 1943 until the end of World War II. American G
SHAEF commanders at a conference in London Left to right: Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, and Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith
Lieutenant-General Sir Humfrey Myddelton Gale, was an officer in the British Army who served in the First and Second World War, during which he was Chief Administrative Officer at Allied Forces Headqu
Gale during the Second World War
From left to right: Lieutenant General Sir Humfrey Gale, Admiral John Cunningham, RN, Commander W.A. Sullivan, USN, Captain W.A. Donst, RN in Naples, Italy, 9 November 1943.
A convalescent Winston Churchill meets the outgoing and incoming Supreme Commanders in the Mediterranean, Dwight D. Eisenhower, to Churchill's right, and Henry Maitland Wilson, to his left. Behind them stand (from left to right), John Whiteley, Air Marshal Arthur Tedder, Brigadier G. S. Thompson, Admiral Sir John Cunningham, unknown, Sir Harold Alexander, Captain M. L. Power, Humfrey Gale, Leslie Hollis, and Eisenhower's chief of staff, Walter Bedell Smith.