Trafford Leigh-Mallory

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Leigh-Mallory, Trafford

Born July 11, 1892, in Mobberley, Cheshire; died Nov. 14, 1944, near Grenoble. Air chief marshal of Great Britain (1943).

Leigh-Mallory graduated from Cambridge University in 1914. In World War I he served in the army and from 1916 in the air force. In World War II he commanded a fighter group (until 1942) that fought to defend the British Isles against the raids of the fascist German air force. Commander of the fighters of the RAF from November 1942, Leigh-Mallory in 1943 was appointed commander of the Allied air force in northwestern Europe, which covered the landing of 1944 and the offensive of the allied troops in France. In October 1944 he was appointed commander of the combined Allied air force in Southeast Asia. Leigh-Mallory died in a plane crash.

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According to the Birmingham Mail of June 26, the appeal was opened by Air Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, the Air Officer Commanding Fighter Command, He told crowds at the exhibition: "I feel convinced that the Germans will never be able to carry out consistent intensive raids on the industrial areas of this country again in this war."

WEEK BRUM EARNED ITS VICTORY WINGS... When Birmingham set itself the target of raising PS12m for the war effort in June 1943, Brummies more than answered the call, contributing a third as much again. MIKE LOCKLEY reports

(7.) Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Eisenhower's tactical air chief, predicted at least 50 percent losses for the airborne forces.

Before the D-Day dawn: the performance of the troop carriers at Normandy

Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory was senior air officer for Operation Jubilee.

Attrition over Dieppe: Lord Louis Mountbatten's vision of a glorious commando-style raid on Dieppe instead turned into a disastrous nightmare

At the other end of the expectations scale came the dire predictions of Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, who predicted to General Dwight Eisenhower, supreme commander of the invasion forces, that the two American divisions would be virtually annihilated in the assault--an authoritative prediction that greatly added to Eisenhower's grievous burden of worries as D-Day approached.

The First Men In: US Paratroopers and the Fight to Save D-Day

Incidentally, on D-Day both the naval commander, Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, and the air force commander, Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, were British.

More needed to curb small arms trade

The English air chief marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, one of the few senior leaders in Overlord who had not seen experience in the Mediterranean, commanded the Allied Expeditionary Air Force (AEAF).

Anglo-American tactical air operations in World War II

With just one phone call to his uncle - Air Vice-Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, one of Supreme Allied Commander General Eisenhower's deputies - David could have got out of the whole "show", as he called it.

D-Day 1944 2004: Rest in peace.. you earned it

9 Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory moved from a key defensive role in Fighter Command.

Seven chiefs

(5) Despite these maneuvers, many C-47s fell to flak, although not as many as British Air Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory had predicted.

Before the d-day dawn: reassessing the troop carriers at Normandy

(9) Eisenhower's command, the Allied Expeditionary Force, had an air component, the Allied Expeditionary Air Force, commanded by Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory and comprised of two air forces: the US Ninth Air Force and the British Second Tactical Air Force.