Allied Commanders at presentation ceremony in France. General Dwight D.

Allied Commanders at presentation ceremony in France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force, shakes hands with Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh Mallory, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, Southeast Asia Command, who has just been decorated with the Legion of Merit at a ceremony on an airfield in France. On Air-Marshal Leigh-Mallory's right is Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, Chief of Bomber Command, Royal Air Force, and at his left is Lieutenant General Carl A. Spaatz, Commander of the U.S. Strategic Air Forces,both of whom were also decorated.