Show 1 High Command Set ISet eI Up for Europe Thrust Allies Allie Sel Select ct cf Chiefs Of Air Naval Forces for Invasion LONDON Dec Dee 29 The 4 UP 4 The The overall allied high hig command for forthe forthe forthe the approaching western invasion of Europe was virtu virtually lly completed ed cd Wednesday with the appointment appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment of two Britons Britons' to command the naval and air forces which will willoper oper operate te under General Dwight wight D. D Eisenhower supreme commander Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay who planned the naval phase of the allied north orth African and Mediterranean Mediterranean Medi Medi- inva invasion i n operations was was named naval in commander I Air Marshal Trafford L L. Leigh- Leigh Mallory head of the R A F F's fighter fight fight- i er command was chosen to lead the aerial forces These appointments following the naming of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arth Arthur r Tedder to be Eisenhower's Eisenhower's Eisen Eisen- howers hower's deputy commander in- in chief gave Britain three top positions positions positions in the supreme command Post Still Vacant Still to be appointed 1 is ill a a acorn commander corn com mander for Amei American can ground com I forces There is a possibility that an overall commander for foJ British and American ground forces also will be named and other key positions positions positions may yet be filled General Sir Bernard I I I. Montgomery has been designated commander of British ground forces The selection of Rams Ramsay y and andL L Mallory g to head the naval and alarms necessity will Splay o e of the most vit vital parts S in the allied lunge lung across the d channel a nel was announced at 10 Downing street 5 Mallory Leigh 51 a a brilliant aerial tactician will direct the allied air air forces' forces tactical opera opera- operations in support of ground forc forces s. s He is ill a specialist in land air-land cooperation cooperation cooperation co co- co- co operation and has been head of Britain's i school hool of army tion He took command of one of the R It A F's busiest fighter groups n near ar fhe he end of t the e. e battle attle of Britain Brit Brit- ain in and commanded the air forces p participating rU in the Dieppe Invasion invasion invasion in In rehearsal in August 1942 Three months later he became chief of the fighter command War ar I Veteran A set heavy-set full-faced full man with witha a black mustache who looks like a typical London city Wallstreet Wall Wallstreet Wallstreet street man Mallory Leigh-Mallory is a World war veteran and has been in the R It RAF A F Fever ever since Ramsay who brought the he British British British Brit Brit- ish army back from Dunkerque was awarded the K B BE E B knight of the British empire December 22 for his distinguished services in planning and execution of naval operations which led to the capture capture cap cap- ture of Sicily He has been one of the senior officers commanding combined operations in the Mediterranean under Eisenhower Known in the royal navy as Dynamo the ye 60 year old old r-old admiral admiral admiral ad ad- miral also was in fn charge of the landing operations in north Africa At the time of the Dunk Dunkerque operation he commanded British naval forces at Dover and was was knighted for his achievement Jn In bringing the Tommies home For Former or mer chief of staff of the British home fleet he was placed d on the ther r retired tired list in 1938 after 40 years' years service and was recalled to active duty at atthe athe the outbreak of this war Co Command and Explained 1 d dHere Here is an explanation on of Mallory's Leigh-Mallory's command He will head all operations operations- British and American known American known as tactical that is all th e blows directed against the enemy's gun emplacements and all that will stand in the way of our Initial landings Strategic bombing is far behind behind behind be be- hind the fi fighting lines the lines the kind that long has been in progress from Britain Britain against against the interior interior inte inte- nor sources of the enemy's war- war making strength Thus Thus' for the purposes o of the in invasion In- In itself Mallory Leigh-Mallory Is air commander Censorship heretofore heretofore heretofore hereto hereto- fore had prevented making a clear distinction between Mal Leigh-Mal- orys ory's command and those already announced as to air operations An American Lieutenant General General General Gen Gen- eral Carl Cari A. A Spa Spaatz tz has been named commander of U. U S. S strategic strategic strategic strate strate- gic air forces for the invasion front 15 Go Down With Loaf Boat GUADALAJARA Mexico Dec 29 UP Fifteen WI-FIfteen Fifteen persons persons' drowned Tuesday night in the sinking of ofa ofa ofa a launch on Lake Chapala a tourist tourist tour tour- 1st resort rl i |