Tedder (of Glenguin), Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron
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died June 3, 1967, Banstead, Surrey, Eng.
British air marshal.
He joined the British army in 1913, transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916, and after World War I commanded a branch of the
Royal Air Force (
RAF). As head of the RAF Middle East Command in World War II, he commanded Allied air operations in North Africa and Italy, and in 1944 he was appointed head of Allied air operations in western Europe. His policy of bombing German communications and providing close air support of ground operations contributed significantly to the success of the Normandy Campaign and the Allied advance into Germany. He later became the first peacetime chief of the air staff (1946–50).
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