What is Albert Coady Wedemeyer?
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} [[File:Albert Coady Wedemeyer.gif|right|Albert Coady Wedemeyer]] General '''Albert Coady Wedemeyer''' (1897&ndash;1989) was an [[United States Army|American army]] officer during [[World War II]]. Wedemeyer was born in [[Omaha, Nebraska]] on July 9, 1897. He studied at the [[United States Military Academy]] in [[West Point, New York|West Point]] and graduated in 1919. After the start of World War II, he was made a temporary [[Lieutenant Colonel]] in 1941. Between 1941 and 1943, he served as a staff officer in the war-plans division of the U.S. War Department. He was the chief author of the 1941 Victory Program which advocated the defeat of the [[Nazi Germany|German]] armies in Europe. When the U.S. entered the war this plan was adopted and expanded. He helped plan the [[Normandy invasion|invasion of Normandy]]. In 1943, Wedemeyer was made Chief of Staff to [[House of Windsor|Lord Mountbatten]], the supreme [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] commander of the [[South East Asia Command]] (SEAC) in the [[South-East Asian Theatre of World War II|Southeast Asian Theatre]]. Between 1944 and 1946, he was Chief of staff to General [[Chiang Kai-shek]] and commander of U.S. forces in China under the command SEAC. The [[China Burma India Theater of World War II|China Burma India Theatre]] assigned to [[Joseph Stilwell]] was split in two with command of the Burma&ndash;India theatre going to General [[Daniel Isom Sultan|Daniel Sultan]]. Wedemeyer had been commander of the [[China Burma India Theater of World War II|U.S. China Theatre]] (USFCT) in 1944&ndash;1945. He had an intimate knowledge of the Allied airlift from India over the [[Himalayas]] into China. This airlift was both to supply the Nationalist Chinese Army and the U.S. [[Twentieth Air Force]] engaged on [[Operation Matterhorn]]. In 1948, as the Army Chief of Plans and Operations, Wedemeyer supported [[Lucius D. Clay]]'s intention to create an airbridge during the Berlin Crisis. His expertise in this area was considerable as