ABSTRACT
Tedder held his last wartime air commanders’ conference in Reims on 4 May 1945. The mood, for once, was boisterous, undisciplined, and no serious work got done; rather like the end of term at school, he remarked; a term that had lasted far too long. As at school, the occasion was marked by the dishing out of prizes. Seven officers of the USAAF, among them Vandenberg and Quesada – with whom Tedder would remain in contact for years to come – received the insignia of their appointment as CBs (Companion of the Order of the Bath). Tedder was not a man for speechifying, but made his admiration of such able comrades perfectly clear.1
