Allied command structure

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The Allied command structure was the overarching military leadership and organizational framework coordinating the forces of multiple Allied nations during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II military organization
military command structure
appliesToConflict World War II
coordinatedBy Combined Chiefs of Staff
Supreme Allied Commanders
hasKeyFigure Alan Brooke
Arthur Tedder
Bernard Montgomery
Carl Spaatz
Charles de Gaulle
Chester W. Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Ernest J. King
linked to: Ernest King

Franklin D. Roosevelt
George C. Marshall
Harold Alexander
Hastings Ismay
Henry H. Arnold
linked to: Hap Arnold

Joseph Stalin
William D. Leahy
Winston Churchill
hasPart Allied Air Command
Allied Naval Command
Allied ground forces commands
linked to: Allied Land Forces

Combined Chiefs of Staff
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
hasSupremeCommander Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean
Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia
hasTheater China-Burma-India Theater
European Theater of Operations
Mediterranean Theater of Operations
North African Theater of Operations
Pacific Theater of Operations
includesMember Australian Armed Forces
Belgian Forces in exile
linked to: Free Belgian forces

British Armed Forces
Canadian Armed Forces
linked to: Canadian forces

Czechoslovak Forces in exile
Free French Forces
Greek Armed Forces in exile
New Zealand Armed Forces
Norwegian Forces in exile
Polish Armed Forces in the West
Royal Netherlands Forces in exile
linked to: Free Dutch forces

Soviet Armed Forces
linked to: Soviet armed forces

United States Armed Forces
opposedTo Axis command structure
purpose allocate resources among Allied theaters of war
coordinate multinational Allied military operations
unify strategic planning among Allied nations
timePeriod 1939–1945

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Supreme Commander, South West Pacific Area partOf Allied command structure
Deputy Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force partOf Western Allied military command structure in Europe
linked to: Allied command structure
Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies partOf Allied unified command structure
linked to: Allied command structure
Allied Force Headquarters memberOf Allied command structure
Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces in exile cooperatedWith Allied military command
linked to: Allied command structure
Eisenhower family connectedToEvent World War II Allied command
linked to: Allied command structure
Allied headquarters in Reims partOf Allied command structure in Northwest Europe
linked to: Allied command structure
India Theater commandStructure Allied command
linked to: Allied command structure
SOPAC commandStructure Allied joint command
linked to: Allied command structure