Allied Command Channel (ACCHAN) was one of three major North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commands from 1952 to 1994. Commander-in-Chief Channel...

Europe Allied Command Europe: Allied Forces Central Europe Allied Command Europe: Allied Forces Southern Europe Allied Command Channel Allied Command Atlantic...

Commanders. A third was added when Allied Command Channel was established on 21 February 1952 to control the English Channel and North Sea area and deny it...

common lineage with Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Atlantic, but they are different titles. Eisenhower transferred from command of the Mediterranean Theater...

guidance on military matters to the Supreme Allied Commanders of Allied Command Operations and Allied Command Transformation, whose representatives attend...

but not the English Channel, the British Isles, and the Canary Islands. Allied Command Atlantic was redesignated as Allied Command Transformation (ACT)...

Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth and Allied Command Channel from 1961 to 1963. Bingley joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1918...

NATO responsibility as Commander in Chief Allied Command Channel. The first Allied Commander-in-Chief Channel was Admiral Sir Arthur Power who was also...

The Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (Japanese: 連合国軍最高司令官, romanized: Rengōkokugun saikōshireikan), or SCAP, was the title held by General Douglas...

English Channel on 6 June, and more than two million Allied troops were in France by the end of August. The decision to undertake cross-channel landings...

War as part of NATO's Allied Command Channel (ACCHAN). One of ACCHAN's subordinate commands was the Benelux Sub-Area Channel Command (BENECHAN) based in...

NATO activated Allied Command Channel (ACCHAN) in 1953. One of three subordinate commands of ACCHAN was the Benelux Sub-Area Channel Command (BENECHAN) based...

until the end of World War II, the formation commanded the Allied airborne forces that participated in the Allied advance through North-West Europe, including...

Franklin D. Roosevelt placed Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower in command of Allied forces. The invasion began shortly after midnight on the morning of...

De Zeeuw and on 20 October 1951 De Jong was transferred to the Allied Command Channel at the HMNB Portsmouth naval base in Portsmouth, England as a senior...

Allied Command Europe Highband, better known as ACE High, was a fixed service NATO radiocommunication and early warning system dating back to 1956. After...

rescued by the Command, comprising 5,721 Allied crew members, 277 enemy personnel and 4,665 non-aircrews. A total of 5,866 Coastal Command personnel were...

States Navy Allied Forces Mediterranean (AFMED) – Admiral Sir Ralph Edwards, RN Allied Command Channel (CHANCOM) Commander-in-Chief Channel (CINCHAN) –...

superiority over the Channel and the UK as a prerequisite to the launch of a seaborne invasion force (codenamed Operation Sea Lion). Fighter Command was divided...

The Nore was double-hatted as Commander, Nore Sub-Area, of NATO's Allied Command Channel. Cecil Hampshire writes that the appointment of Commander-in-Chief...

The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from 3 September 1943, during the Italian campaign of...

were refitted at Brest. The ships were a threat to Allied trans-Atlantic convoys and RAF Bomber Command attacked them from 30 March 1941. Gneisenau was hit...

South of Norway's coastal waters were under the command of NATO's Allied Command Channel and Allied Forces Baltic Approaches.[citation needed] Therefore...

Allied Forces Baltic Approaches (BALTAP) was a Principal Subordinate Command (PSC) of the NATO Military Command Structure, with responsibility for the...

Montgomery commanded the Eighth Army from August 1942. He subsequently commanded the Eighth Army during the Allied invasion of Sicily and the Allied invasion...

significant role in the Allied effort to halt the Japanese advance as part of the American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command. The ABDA fleet finally...

Group commander also held the corresponding post within the NATO Allied Command Channel, and for that reason was a rank higher (Air Marshal) than those...

Therefore, the Allied high command had only a small geographical area across which to mislead the German defences. Montgomery, commanding the Allied landing...

the Meuse River and rapidly drive to the English Channel. The Germans would thus cut off the Allied armies in Belgium. This part of the plan later became...

mainland Europe, Allied forces fell under the command of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). There was a separate command for the Mediterranean...