Trafford Leigh Leigh-Mallory

Trafford Leigh Leigh-Mallory. . , Trafford Leigh Leigh-Mallory , 11 July 1892 - 14 November 1944 , Commander in Chief, Allied Expeditionary Force Air Force, Trafford Leigh-Mallory read law at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he met Arthur Tedder. Serving in the Lancashire Fusiliers, he was wounded at Ypres (1915), and, on recovering, transferred to the Royal Flying Corps (1916). He commanded No. 8 Squadron (1917) and finished the war with a mention in dispatches and Distinguished Service Order. , , Between the wars he attended, taught in, and commanded a range of Royal Air Force (RAF) and army command-and-staff schools and colleges, in the process becoming an expert on inter-service operational cooperation. Following posting in Iraq, he was made Group Captain in command of No. 12 Group, Fighter Command. , , During the Battle of Britain (1940), Air Vice Marshal Leigh-Mallory quarreled with fellow commanders over tactics, alienating many but ascending nevertheless to Air Officer in Charge of Fighter Command. His appreciation of inter-service cooperation in tactical environments commended him to command the Overlord air effort. Persuaded that his experience was no match for post-Normandy operations, the Deputy Supreme Commander took control of air strategy. Reassigned to South East Asia Command, Air Chief Marshal Leigh-Mallory, en route to take over, ended thirty years' service when his airplane crashed. , In memory of Major Darwin J. Mann, USAF, who served with distinction in World War II and the Korean War. Given in love by his son, Thomas L. Mann, a member of the National D-Day Memorial Foundation Board of Directors, 2002-2006, and Foundation Vice Chairman 2003-2005-