Notable graduates include former U. S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, U. S. Senator John McCain, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark, former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace and Hugh Shelton, former National Security Advisor and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James L. Jones, former U. S Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, former U. S. Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, retired Air Force General Arnold W. Braswell, U. S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle, World War II submarine officer and best-selling novelist Edward L. Beach, Jr., former military aide to President John F. Kennedy Godfrey McHugh, murdered U. S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and U. S. Air Force Chief of Staff Norton A. Schwartz.

The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November marked the turning point in which Allied Naval forces took on the extremely experienced Japanese surface forces at night and forced them to withdraw after sharp action.

In November 1991, he received his fourth star and in December 1991, became Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe ( CINCSOUTH-Naples, Italy ) and Commander in Chief, U. S. Naval Forces, Europe ( CINCUSNAVEUR-London ).

The Combined Chiefs of Staff appointed General Eisenhower as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force, General Alexander as Deputy C-in-C with responsibility for detailed planning and execution of the operation, Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham as Naval Commander, and Air Chief Marshal Tedder as Air Commander.

Since the establishment of NATO it has constituted the most powerful Allied maritime striking force in the NATO Southern Region, and has retained the title of Naval Striking and Support Force Southern Europe ( STRIKFORSOUTH ) in its NATO identity.

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.

The Task Force commander also previously held the role of NATO AFSOUTH's Commander, Maritime Air, Allied Naval Forces South with the NATO task force designator TF 431.

*** Allied Naval Forces, Baltic Approaches

** Allied Naval Forces Southern Europe Naples, Italy

The last major attempt by the Japanese to drive Allied forces from Guadalcanal and Tulagi was defeated during the decisive Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in early November 1942.

The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, sometimes referred to as the Third and Fourth Battles of Savo Island, the Battle of the Solomons, the Battle of Friday the 13th, or, in Japanese sources, the, took place from 12 – 15 November 1942, and was the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied ( primarily United States ) and Imperial Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II.

It is now the site of Singapore Changi Airport / Changi Air Base, Changi Naval Base and is also home to Changi Prison, site of the former Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II which held Allied prisoners captured in Singapore and Malaysia after Singapore's fall in February 1942.

He was promoted to full admiral on 25 May 1995, on appointment as Second Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command and went on to be Commander-in-Chief Fleet as well as NATO Commander-in-Chief Eastern Atlantic and NATO Commander Allied Naval Forces North West Europe in September 1997.

After the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, US Vice Admiral William Halsey, commander of Allied forces in the South Pacific, had reorganized US naval forces under his command, including, on November 24, the formation of Task Force 67 ( TF67 ) at Espiritu Santo, comprising the heavy cruisers USS Minneapolis, New Orleans, Pensacola, and Northampton, the light cruiser Honolulu, and four destroyers ( Fletcher, Drayton, Maury, and Perkins ).

* July 21 – Mitsubishi A6M Zero ( Allied reporting name " Zeke ") with the Imperial Japanese Navys 12th Combined Naval Air Corps

* Mitsubishi G4M ( Allied reporting name " Betty ") with the Imperial Japanese Navys 1st Naval Air Corps

* March 21 – Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka (" Cherry Blossom "), Allied reporting name " Baka ") rocket-propelled suicide aircraft with the Imperial Japanese Navys 721st Naval Air Corps

This was due to the security of the new Enigma, and their ability to read convoy messages sent in Allied Naval Cipher No. 3.

In 1943, at age 19, she entered the Women's Royal Naval Service as a Signal Rating and served in Combined Operations bases in the UK until being commissioned as a third officer in 1945 and serving in the Supreme Allied Headquarters, South East Asia.

Ramsay was to be appointed as Naval Force Commander for the invasion of Europe on 29 April 1942, but the invasion was postponed and he was transferred to become deputy Naval commander of the Allied invasion of North Africa.

* 1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

* 1945 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

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

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

He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II, and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe ; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942 – 43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944 – 45, from the Western Front.

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 December 1943, President Roosevelt decided that Eisenhower — not Marshall — would be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

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.

* 1924 – Alexander Haig, American Soldier & Civil servant, 7th Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 5th White House Chief of Staff and 59th United States Secretary of State ( d. 2010 )

* 1943 – World War II: U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander.

* Leon A. Edney, former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO Atlantic Forces

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, seen during his tour of the Arakan Front in February 1944.

In August 1943, Churchill appointed Mountbatten the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command ( SEAC ) with promotion to the acting rank of full admiral.

During his time as Supreme Allied Commander of the Southeast Asia Theatre, his command oversaw the recapture of Burma from the Japanese by General William Slim.

He commanded 15th Army Group in Sicily and again in Italy before being made Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean.

Alexander presided over Montgomery's victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein and the advance of the Eighth Army to Tripoli, for which Alexander was elevated to a knight grand cross of the Order of the Bath, and, after the Anglo-American forces from Operation Torch and the Eighth Army converged in Tunisia in February 1943, they were brought under the unified command of a newly-formed 18th Army Group headquarters, commanded by Alexander and reporting to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean at the Allied Forces Headquarters.

When Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Allied Commander for the planned Normandy Landings he suggested that Alexander become ground forces commander, as he was popular with both British and US officers.

Alexander remained in command of 15th Army Group, as well as its successor, the Allied Armies in Italy, for most of the Italian Campaign, until December 1944, when he relinquished his command to Clark and took over as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces Headquarters, responsible for all military operations in the Mediterranean Theatre.

The system was to be based on four air defense regions ( ADRs ) coordinated by SACEUR ( Supreme Allied Commander Europe ).

Also in the article, Voight accused four-star General and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Wesley Clark of having " shame upon him, having been relieved of his command " and said that Clark " has done their Obama camp's ' bidding and become a lying fool in his need to demean a fellow soldier and a true hero.

During his military career, he served as Commander, United States European Command ( COMUSEUCOM ) and Supreme Allied Commander Europe ( SACEUR ) from 2003 to 2006 and as the 32nd Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1999 to January 2003.