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...commander in chief of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force, the R.A.F.'s bland, handsome Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory drew no shouts of admiration from U.S. and British airmen, who are used to close teamwork in other theaters. He was an exception to the rule that U.S. flyers regard their opposite R.A.F. numbers as tops in friendly cooperation and red-tapeless administrative skill...
...This week the situation was cleared up. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, deputy to Eisenhower and a veteran associate and boss of U.S. airmen, took over the job of running the Expeditionary Air Force. To a new job in a minor league-the Southeast Asia theater-went Sir Trafford, to become Allied air commander there...
...chief commanders, including Doolittle, and such colleagues as Lewis Brereton, Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Sir Arthur ("Mary") Coningham, come for dinner about once a week...
Engaged. WAAF Flight Officer Jacqueline Leigh-Mallory, 23, only daughter of the invasion's air commander, British Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh Leigh-Mallory; and U.S. Army Air Forces Flight Officer William Ellwood Doherty Jr., 26; in London. In peacetime he was a chemist at his family's Pleasant Valley Wine Co., a top-ranking American champagne producer, in Hammondsport...
...Ninth Air Force has been bright on the U.S. uniforms visible in British trains, pubs, and village dances. But not until last week was there official announcement that the outfit had been moved from the Mediterranean to join the new Allied Expeditionary Air Forces under Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory as part of the Tactical (close support) Air Force...