biography
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Slessor, Sir John (Cotesworth)
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| lived:
| (1897–1979)
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| biography:
| British air-marshal, born in Ranikhet, NE India. Educated at Haileybury, he served in the Royal Flying Corps in World War 1 and was awarded the MC. He was an instructor at the RAF Staff College (1924–5) and at Camberley (1931–4). During World War 2 he was commander-in-chief of Coastal Command (1943) and of the Mediterranean theatre (1944–5). Promoted air marshal in 1940, he became chief of the air staff after the War (1950–2). His often original, penetrating, and unorthodox views on nuclear strategy are expressed in Strategy for the West (1954) and The Great Deterrent (1957). He was knighted in 1948. |
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