The British sent Commander Alastair Denniston, head of Britain's Government Code and Cypher School, Dilly Knox, chief British cryptanalyst and Commander Humphrey Sandwith, head of the Royal Navy's intercept and direction-finding stations.

Wing Commander Roderick Alastair Brook Learoyd VC ( 5 February 1913 – 24 January 1996 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Just before World War II, Welchman was invited by Commander Alastair Denniston to join the Government Code & Cypher School at Bletchley Park, in case war broke out.

Commander Alexander Guthrie ( Alastair ) Denniston CMG CBE RNVR ( 1 December 1881, Greenock – 1 January 1961, Milford on Sea ) was a British codebreaker in Room 40 and first head of the Government Code and Cypher School ( GC & CS ) and field hockey player.

* 7 January 1918 appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) Commander Alexander Guthrie Denniston, R. N. V. R.

* 2 January 1933 appointed a Companion of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) Commander Alexander Guthrie Denniston, O. B. E., R. N. V. R.

* 12 June 1941 appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George ( CMG ) Commander Alexander Guthrie Denniston, C. B. E., R. N. V. R.

At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).

In 1971 Agatha Christie was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.

He was made a " Knight of the Indian Empire " by Queen Victoria, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire by Edward VII ( 1902 ), and a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India by George V ( 1912 ).

The second of the so-called J-missions, the mission was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly.

One is on Medny Island ( Commander Islands, Russia ), which was reduced by some 85 – 90 %, to around 90 animals, as a result of mange caused by an ear tick introduced by dogs in the 1970s.

He was betrayed by Hitler Youth and was hung from the portal of the City Hall by the city's Military Commander Oberst Meyer.

General Wesley Clark was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and oversaw the mission.

The only common commander for Montgomery's all infantry and all armour corps was the Eighth Army Commander himself.

The reburial was attended by sailors from the modern frigate HMS Chatham and a band from the Egyptian Navy, as well as a descendant of the only identified burial, Commander James Russell.

Following the publication of the Declaration the British had dispatched Commander David George Hogarth to see Hussein in January 1918 bearing the message that the " political and economic freedom " of the Palestinian population was not in question.

No. 1 ( Commander / Leader ) for the 2011 – 2012 seasons was originally Commander Dave Koss ; effective 27 May 2011, Koss " stepped down Friday in the wake of a subpar performance at a Virginia air show.

Commander Tony Less was the squadron's first official commanding officer.

In 1975, he was knighted a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( KBE ) by Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

Chiang was even named the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in the China war zone.

* On December 15, 1993, Colin Powell was created an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

In June 1941, he was appointed Chief of Staff to General Walter Krueger, Commander of the 3rd Army, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.

In November 1942, he was also appointed Supreme Commander Allied ( Expeditionary ) Force of the North African Theater of Operations ( NATOUSA ) through the new operational Headquarters A ( E ) FHQ.

In January 1944, he resumed command of ETOUSA and the following month was officially designated as the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ), serving in a dual role until the end of hostilities in Europe in May 1945.

The Columbia trustees refused to accept his resignation in December 1950, when he took leave from the university to become the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), and was given operational command of NATO forces in Europe.

Each SEAL Team is commanded by a Navy Commander ( O-5 ), and has a number of operational SEAL platoons and a headquarters element.

The first operational missions of naval aircraft were flown under his command during the Veracruz operation in 1914 and he was the first to hold the title: Commander, Aircraft Squadrons, Pacific Fleet.

During the entire period of the war, the OKW was led by Keitel, who reported directly to Hitler, from whom most operational orders actually originated as Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht ( Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces ).

* Commander of an operational command ( such as Canada Command );

Following this successful launch, Major General David Wade, Commander of the 1st Missile Division, declared the coffin-type launcher to be operational.

The 15th Air Base Squadron inactivated at Wheeler on 31 October 1991, one day before the U. S. Army assumed operational control of the installation in accordance with a memorandum of understanding signed by the Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces, and the Commander, US Army Western Command.

That summer, Commander Coastal Surveillance Force and his staff moved their headquarters from Saigon to Cam Ranh Bay and set up operational command post to control the Operation Market Time effort.

* Major General George G. Meade: Commander of the Army of the Potomac ( June 28, 1863 – June 28, 1865 ; Major General John G. Parke took brief temporary command during Meade's absences on four occasions during this period ); Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of all Union armies, located his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac and provided operational direction to Meade from May 1864 to April 1865, but Meade retained formal command.

and her Carrier Task Force commanded by Commander, Carrier Group Six commenced her 21st and final operational deployment on 30 May 1991.

The chain of command for Operation Blue Bat was as follows: the Eisenhower administration at the strategic level ; Specified Command, Middle East ( SPECCOMME, a ' double-hat ' for Commander in Chief, U. S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean ) at the operational level ; the Sixth Fleet, with aircraft carriers Saratoga, Essex, and Wasp, cruisers Des Moines and, and two squadrons of destroyers.

Running out of time, Muir secretly creates a forged urgent operational directive from the CIA director to commence Operation Dinner Out, a rescue mission spearheaded by Commander Wiley's ( Dale Dye ) U. S. Navy SEAL team, which Bishop laid the groundwork for as a " Plan B " to his own rescue attempt.

Commander, Task Force 63 ( CTF-63 ) is the operational commander of all the U. S. 6th Fleet air and sea logistics.

ComSubGru 8's operational functions were accomplished through four Task Forces: CTF 64, CTF 69 ( attack submarines ), NATO's CTF 442, or deployed SSBNs and CTF 439, the operational title for Commander Submarines Allied Naval Forces South — the rear admiral's NATO hat.

Commander, Task Force 65 / Commander Destroyer Squadron SIX ZERO exercises operational and tactical control of all forward deployed surface combatants operating in the USEUCOM and USAFRICOM AORs under the direction of Naval Forces Europe / Africa.

In August 1940 Blackett became scientific adviser to Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Pile, Commander in Chief of Anti-Aircraft Command and thus began the work that resulted in the field of study known as operational research ( OR ).

Divergences included military integration at the division rather than battalion level and a change in the command structure putting the NATO Supreme Commander in charge of EDC operational capabilities.

At a meeting to solve the problem of command, Stilwell, under intense pressure from the Admiral Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Commander of SEAC, astonished everyone by saying " I am prepared to come under General Slim's commanding Fourteenth Army operational control until I get to Kamaing ".

In 1940 he became engaged in operational research at the Royal Air Force headquarters, holding the honorary rank of Wing Commander R. A. F.

Commander, Undersea Surveillance ( CUS ), head of the IUSS, was elevated to a Navy Echelon IV command on 28 February 2007 at NAS Oceana / Dam Neck Annex, Virginia, operates under the operational guidance of COMPACFLT.