The French Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, also known as CECMED (French for Commandant en chef pour la Méditerranée) is a French Armed Forces regional...
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first Commander-in-Chief for the Mediterranean Fleet was the appointment of General at Sea Robert Blake in September 1654 (styled as Commander of the...
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United States Naval Forces Europe and Africa (redirect from Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean)
the title was changed, this time to Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (CINCNELM). A Northern European Force...
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combat operations. In effect, Alexander was the ground commander. Air forces were grouped under the Mediterranean Air Command under Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur...
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The Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, was an operational commander of the Royal Navy. His subordinate units, establishments, and staff were sometimes informally...
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single command merging back into Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet. Shore-based naval area commands in the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre had historically...
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the Commander-in-Chief, Allied Force for the Mediterranean theatre. Eisenhower then served as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF) in the...
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Home Fleet (redirect from Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet)
the additional appointment of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, and allotted a rear-admiral to serve under him as commander of the Home Squadron. "... the...
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and Mediterranean; and Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command. In line with the creation of the joint-service European Command, the Army command in Europe...
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Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (redirect from Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe)
justify its transfer to France. At that point, Montgomery ceased to command all land forces but continued as Commander in Chief of the British 21st Army...
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Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
a French ship ashore in Audierne Bay, and captured two privateers in 1757 during the Seven Years' War. He held senior command as Commander-in-Chief, North...
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Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (category Chief Commanders of the Legion of Merit)
When Operation Overlord—the invasion of France—came to be planned, Tedder was appointed Deputy Supreme Commander at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary...
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Allied Naval Forces Southern Europe (redirect from Commander Gibraltar Mediterranean)
also held the title of Commander, Allied Naval Forces Southern Europe. With the creation of Allied Forces Mediterranean in 1953, a British-led major...
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January 12, 1955) was a World War II Mediterranean combat commander and former chief of United States Air Forces in Europe for whom Cannon Air Force Base...
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2°59′36″W / 53.4074°N 2.9932°W / 53.4074; -2.9932 Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches was the commander of a major operational command of the Royal Navy...
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Central Force (redirect from Commander-in-Chief, Home Army)
Force was redesignated as GHQ Home Forces in December 1915 when Sir John French was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces. Mitchinson. Defending Albion:...
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Allied leaders of World War I (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
(1914–1916), Commander-in-chief and Generalissimo of the Allied Armies (1918); Marshal of France from August 1918 Robert Nivelle – Commander-in-Chief of the...
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The Commander-in-Chief, China, was the admiral in command of what was usually known as the China Station, at once both a British Royal Navy naval formation...
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The Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Ireland was both an admiral's post and a naval formation of the Royal Navy. It was based at Queenstown, now Cobh, in Ireland...
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John de Robeck (category Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
de Robeck became Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet and British High Commissioner to Turkey, and then Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet...
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post of Commander in Chief Mediterranean Fleet was given a dual-hatted role as NATO Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Mediterranean (CINCAFMED) in charge...
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The Commander-in-Chief, Devonport, was a senior Royal Navy appointment first established in 1845. The office holder was the Port Admiral responsible for...
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The Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic was an operational commander of the Royal Navy from 1939. The South American area was added to his responsibilities...
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Karl Dönitz (redirect from German Commander-in-Chief for Submarines)
In 1918, he was commanding UB-68, and was taken prisoner of war by British forces. As commander of UB-68, he attacked a convoy in the Mediterranean while...
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Manley Laurence Power (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
promoted to Commander and appointed as Staff Officer (Operations) to the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham. In 1942, he...
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Graham Moore (Royal Navy officer) (category First Sea Lords and Chiefs of the Naval Staff)
Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, and finally, Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. He was the younger brother of General Sir John Moore. Moore was born in Glasgow...
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Allied Joint Force Command Naples (category Military units and formations established in 2004)
armed forces]." Commander Western Mediterranean (COMMEDWEST), under a French Navy admiral, until 1962 in Algiers, then Toulon, after France left NATO's integrated...
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The Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, was a senior commander of the Royal Navy for hundreds of years. Plymouth Command was a name given to the units, establishments...
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François Darlan (category The Holocaust in France)
was Commander-in-Chief of the French Navy at the beginning of World War II. After France's armistice with Germany in June 1940, Darlan served in Philippe...
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Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (category Chief Commanders of the Legion of Merit)
specifically for his actions in the Dardanelles and in the Baltics. In the Second World War, as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, Cunningham led British...
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