<i>Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Air Commander in Chief Mediterranean Air Command, Italy, 17 December 1943</i><br>
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder on the Italian coast. Later that month he returned to Britain to take up his appointment as Deputy Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces then being assembled for the cross-channel invasion.
British official photographer
1943
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