Allied Commander and chief in Europe during World War 2?

Answer 1

Leadership and planning was shared between Roosevelt (US), Churchhill (GB), and Stalin (Russia). The Allied Forces were under the command of General Dwight Eisenhauer (US).

World War TwoThe leader of England in World War Two was Neville Chamberlain until May of 1940

when he was forced to resign and Winston Churchill became prime minister

My Opinion:

When WWII Started, the Allies consisted of France, Great Britain and Poland (And technically China). At that point, France had the biggest and most powerful army, and were considered the leaders of the allied forces. However, after their invasion and defeat, the only member left of the original 3 allies was Britain. So, with this in mind, it would be safe to say for the most part Britain was the leader country (However, as the first answer says, there was the "Great 3" which consisted of the UK, Russia and the USA later on)

Answer 2

PCH=Dwight Eisenhower

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during World War II World War II

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, and is currently used only within NATO NATO

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. Dwight Eisenhower served as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF) for the Battle of Normandy Battle of Normandy

The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between Nazi Germany in Western Europe and the invading Allies of World War II forces as part of the larger conflict of World War II....

during World War II. The current commander of NATO's Allied Command Operations has the title Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR).

During World War II, there were two areas which had supreme commanders in name and three others which effectively had supreme commanders. The two in name were the Supreme Allied Command South East Asia (SACSEA) and Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, was the headquarters of the Commander of Allied forces in north west Europe, from late 1943 until the end of World War II....

(SCAEF) in northwest Europe. The Allied Mediterranean theatre's Mediterranean Theatre of World War II

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Commander-in-Chief, Allied Force, the American Commander-in-Chief South West Pacific and Commander-in-Chief Pacific Ocean Areas also functioned as de facto supreme commaGeneral of the Army Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur

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served with distinction in the former position. These commanders reported to the Combined Chiefs of Staff Combined Chiefs of Staff

The Combined Chiefs of Staff was the supreme military command for the western Allies during World War II....

, although in the case of the American commanders in the Pacific and SACSEA, the relevant national command authorities of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Chiefs of Staff

The Joint Chiefs of Staff is a panel comprising the highest-ranking members of each major branch of the armed services in any particular country....

or the Chiefs of Staff Committee Chiefs of Staff Committee

The Chiefs of Staff Committee is composed of the most senior military personnel in the Military of the United Kingdom....

had responsibility of the main conduct of the war in the theatre of operations.

General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower was the most high profile of the supreme commanders. He served successively as the Allied Mediterranean theatre's Commander in Chief, Allied Force and then as European theatre's European Theatre of World War II

The European Theatre was an area of heavy fighting across Europe, during World War II, from 1 September1939 to 8 May1945....

Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF). Eisenhower was succeeded as Commander in Chief, Allied Force by Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson who was in turn succeeded by Field Marshal Harold Alexander. The post of Supreme Commander South East Asia Command South East Asia Command

South East Asia Command was the body set up to be in overall charge of Allied operations in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II during World War II....

(SACSEA) was occupied throughout most of its existence by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten.

Following the end of the war, the term came into use again with the formation of NATO NATO

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, at which point Eisenhower again found himself a Supreme Allied Commander.
Dwight D. Eisenhower had this job before he ran for President.

Answer 3

Politically it's Churchill. Militarily I suppose Montgomery is the main one. Slim gets a lot of recognition for the war in Burma against the Japanese, given poor rescources. Alan Brooke was Chief of the General Staff for many years. I don't think the British had one supreme commander at any given time in any place really.

Answer 4

Hard to answer a question as general as that. Each of the allies had their own leaders, the chief ones being Winston Churchill for Britain, Josef Stalin for the USSR and Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the US as political leaders while the military commanders were more in number and different at times. More notabely though, during the second part of the war starting with the British-American landings in the French African territories (November 1942) the probable Comander in Chief of the Allied forces on the Western front was American General Dwight David Eisenhower although he was appointed Supreme Commander only in 1944, in preparation of the Normandy landings which he planned and carried out. On the Eastern Front and because Russia conducted their offensive against Germany from 2 directions, the command was given to both Marshal Georgy Zhukov and Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, the former having defended Leningrad and then advanced to conquer Berlin via the Northern (Baltic) Front and the latter having defended Stalingrad and advanced along the Souther Front through Ukraine, Romania, Hungary and eventualy head North as well into Germany.

Answer 5

The Supreme Allied Commander was Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Answer 6

Franklin Roosevelt

Winston Churchill

Joseph Stalin

Answer 7

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 8

Eisenhower

Answer 9

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