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Show Leaders of New European Invasion Team if . " l ' t - I - ; t ---.. i """'.if .-.of!.. v..-.- aa lii fj'ii ii-wi - - r if "t jr-A-vrami li li nulitf-I n - 4 -. '.ij These are the men who will lead the long awaited Allied "second front" invasion of Europe. Left to right: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of Allied invasion armies; Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Ted-der, deputy to Eisenhower; Lieut. Gen. Carl Spaatz, chief of all the American strategic air forces that will hit Germany from west and south; and Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, chief of the British land armies. Appointment of Tedder as Eisenhower's deputy Indicated that air power was to be a major weapon In the battle to crush the fortress of Europe. Eisenhower, who had never before made a prediction in 13 months of j warfare, announced as he left Algiers to assume his new post that "we will win the European war in 1944." |