British World War II Army commander (1884–1981)
A British field marshal who commanded Middle East forces during the Second World War's North African campaign, then was sacked in 1942 after the tide turned against him in the desert.
Claude Auchinleck spent most of his military career in India, rising through the British Indian Army to become its commander-in-chief by early 1941. That July he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Middle East Theatre, where initial successes gave way to reversals in North Africa; he was relieved in August 1942. By June 1943 he was back as Commander-in-Chief, India, where his work organizing supply, maintenance and training proved crucial to General William Slim's Fourteenth Army. He held the India post through Partition in 1947, then served as supreme commander of all British forces in In…
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There exists a real danger that our friend Rommel is becoming a kind of magician or bogey-man to our troops, who are talking far too much about him.
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