![]() As such he exercised strategic control over the campaign in Italy. Wilson's title became Supreme Commander, Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. He was succeeded at AFHQ by Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. Having overseen the Tunisia campaign, the invasion of Sicily and the invasion of Italy, Eisenhower left AFHQ and returned to England in late 1943 to assume command of the forces assembling for Operation Overlord, the Allied landings in northern France. Shortly after the establishment of the headquarters, expeditionary was deleted from its title for reasons of operational security. The British General Harold Alexander was Deputy Commanderin Chief, and was responsible for the detailed planning and preparation, and the actual conduct, of combat operations. Eisenhower as Supreme Commander had the ultimate responsibility. The initial Commander-in-Chief, Allied (Expeditionary) Force, was General Dwight D. Its last relocation was to Leghorn (Livorno), Italy between April 1945 until April 1947. From Algiers it moved to Caserta in Italy until April 1945. It relocated to Algiers in Algeria in November 1942 and remained there until July 1944. Initially AFHQ was located in London from September until November 1942. In February 1943 the authority of AFHQ was extended to include the British 8th Army, command by General Bernard Montgomery which having advanced westwards after the Second battle of El Alamein was approaching the border of Tunisia where the British, American and French forces in British First Army had been fighting the Tunisia Campaign. It was created on Septemto launch a combined U.S.-British operation against the northern and northwestern coast of Africa. The operational command of the MTO USA was a combined U.S.-British operational command called Allied Forces Headquarters AFHQ, which planned and directed ground, air, and naval operations and military government activities in the North African and Mediterranean theatres of operations.
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