Manley Laurence Power

Admiral Sir Manley Laurence Power KCB, CBE, DSO & Bar, DL (10 January 1904 – 17 May 1981) was a Royal Navy admiral who fought in World War II as a captain and later rose to more senior ranks, including the NATO position Allied Commander-in-Chief, Channel.

One of his chief accomplishments was leading the 26th Destroyer Flotilla into the Malacca Strait during Operation Dukedom to sink the Japanese cruiser Haguro.

[2] In 1939 he was promoted to Commander and appointed as Staff Officer (Operations) to the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham.

[2] He was promoted to rear-admiral in 1953, and in the following year was appointed Senior Naval Member of the Directing Staff of the Imperial Defence College.

[2] Promoted to vice-admiral, he became Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers in 1956[2] and Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff and Fifth Sea Lord in 1957.

A convalescent Winston Churchill meets the outgoing and incoming Supreme Commanders in the Mediterranean, Dwight D. Eisenhower , to Churchill's right, and Henry Maitland Wilson , to his left. Behind them stand (from left to right), John Whiteley , Air Marshal Arthur Tedder , Brigadier G. S. Thompson , Admiral Sir John Cunningham , unknown, Sir Harold Alexander , Captain M. L. Power, Humfrey Gale , Leslie Hollis , and Eisenhower's chief of staff , Walter Bedell Smith .