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Norman Bottomley
Air Chief Marshal Sir Norman Bottomley KCB CIE DSO AFC (September 18, 1891 - August 13, 1970) was the Yorkshire-born successor to Arthur 'Bomber' Harris as Commander-in-Chief of Royal Air Force Bomber Command in 1945. Bottomley was Senior Air Staff Officer at Bomber Command headquarters between 1938 and 1940, and was appointed AOC 5 Group in November 1940. He was later promoted to Deputy Chief of the Air Staff in 1943. At the war's end he followed 'Bomber' Harris as C-in-C Bomber Command!
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