Air Marshal Harris, New Chief of Bomber Command
... Air Marshal Arthur Travers Harris has succeeded Air Marshal Richard E. C. Peirse (recently appointed A.O.C.-in-C., India) as Commander-in-Chief, Bomber Command. Air Marshal Harris is forty-nine and holds the C.B., the O.B.E., and the A.F.C. To his friends he is known as Ginger because of the colour of his hair. He served in the ranks of the First Rhodesian Regiment in the last war and joined ...