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Allied High Command

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World War II military organization military command structure

Allied High Command was the top-level military leadership structure coordinating the Allied powers’ overall strategy and operations during World War II.

Aliases (4)

Allied high command ×5
Allied high command in North Africa ×1
Allied military appointments of World War II ×1
Allied staff planning for Operation Overlord ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II military organization → military command structure →
appliesTo	Allied powers →
conflict	World War II →
coordinatedOperation	Allied invasion of Italy → D-Day landings in Normandy → final offensives against Germany → final offensives against Japan → island-hopping campaign in the Pacific → strategic bombing campaign in Europe →
countryInvolved	China → France → Soviet Union → United Kingdom → United States →
hasPart	Allied military staff committees → Combined Chiefs of Staff → Mediterranean Allied Command → Pacific theater commands → Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force → theater commands →
keyFigure	Charles de Gaulle → Chiang Kai-shek → Franklin D. Roosevelt → Joseph Stalin → Winston Churchill →
keyMilitaryLeader	Alan Brooke → Bernard Montgomery → Chester W. Nimitz → Douglas MacArthur → Dwight D. Eisenhower → George C. Marshall → Georgy Zhukov → Hap Arnold → William D. Leahy →
opponent	Axis powers →
primaryFunction	allocation of military resources → joint planning among Allied nations → setting overall war priorities →
role	coordination of Allied operations → coordination of overall Allied strategy → top-level military leadership →
theaterOfOperations	Eastern Front → European Theater of Operations → Mediterranean Theater of Operations → North African campaign → Pacific Theater of Operations →
timePeriod	1939–1945 →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Husky ("Allied high command") → Operation Avalanche ("Allied high command") → Operation Dragoon ("Allied high command") →	plannedBy
Allied Naval Commander, Expeditionary Force ("Allied high command") → Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force →	partOf
Allied Combined Operations Headquarters ("Allied high command") → First Army (Allied, North Africa) ("Allied high command in North Africa") →	subordinateTo
Allied Naval Commander, Expeditionary Force ("Allied military appointments of World War II") →	category
Walter Bedell Smith ("Allied staff planning for Operation Overlord") →	notableWork