SOLOC was abolished on 6 February 1945. Wilson remained Supreme Allied Commander for just under a year, until 21 November 1944, when he was sent to Washington to head of the British Joint Staff Mission, a position rendered vacant by the death of Field Marshal Sir John Dill on 4 November 1944. Wilson was succeeded by Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, who remained until the end of the war. Headquarters MTOUSA and General Headquarters CMF formally separated from AFHQ on 1 October 1945, leaving AFHQ to consist of a small interallied staff responsible for combined command liquidation activities and commanded by British Lieutenant General Sir William Duthie Morgan as Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean. AFHQ was abolished, effective 17 September 1947, by General Order 24, AFHQ, 16 September 1947. McNarney was succeeded as Deputy Theater Commander and Ccommanding general MTOUSA by Lieutenant General Matthew B. Ridgway, who in turned was succeeded in December 1945 by Lieutenant General John C. H. Lee, who commanded through 1946 and 1947. The Africa-Middle East Theater of Operations was "established on March 1, 1945, was mainly concerned with the liquidation of the Army's property holdings and other interests in Africa, Palestine, and the Persian Gulf area. The North African installations of the Mediterranean Theater and its base commands at Casablanca were transferred to the new Theater in March 1945; the United States Army Forces in Liberia were transferred to it in April 1945." "The United States Army Forces in Liberia were subsequently under the North African Service Command, which was the former Mediterranean Base Section, at Casablanca. By 1946 all [the Town Commands] except the agency at Casablanca were discontinued." Campaigns Algeria-French Morocco (Allied invasion of French North Africa) 8–11 November 1942 Tunisia 17 November 1942 – 13 May 1943 Sicily 9 July-17 August 1943 Naples-Foggia 18 August 1943 – 21 January 1944 (Air); 9 September 1943 – 21 January 1944 (Ground) Anzio 22 January-24 May 1944 Rome-Arno 22 January-9 September 1944 Southern France 15 August-14 September 1944 Northern Apennines 10 September 1944 – 4 April 1945 Po Valley 5 April-8 May 1945 A theater of operations Notes References External links General Records of Allied Force Headquarters (AFHQ) Commands of the United States Army Military units and formations of the United States Army in World War II Mediterranean theatre of World War II Military units and formations disestablished in 1947