the Mediterranean Theatre was British General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson , replacing U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower who had moved to command the forces preparing for Operation Overlord , the Normandy landings .
After Ferdinand Foch was promoted to Allied Supreme Commandermilitary.military_commandover Philippe Pétain ) , Mangin was recalled upon the orders of Prime Minister Clemenceau and given command initially of a corps and then of the French Tenth Army on the Western Front .
At a strategic level , the relationship really came to prominence in World War II , when the two nations worked extremely closely in the Pacific War against Japan , with General Douglas MacArthur undertaking his role as Supreme Allied Commandermilitary.military_commandin Australia , effectively having Australian troops and resources under his command .
In support of the invasion of Normandy General Dwight D. Eisenhower , the Supreme Allied Commandermilitary.military_commandassigned Bomber Command to support the ground forces .
A former Lieutenant Commandermilitary.military_commandthe Royal Navy , he was torpedoed twice ( in the consecutive sinkings of and ) in the same morning during the action of 22 September 1914 against German submarine under the command of Commander Otto Weddigen as the fleet manoeuvred .