branch death_date allegiance awards birth_date rank article_title name
united kingdom 25 september 1969 united kingdom united kingdom cb grand officer of the greek order of the phoenix cbe commander of the us legion of merit 22 june 1899 air vice-marshal frank inglis
 francis frederic inglis
frank inglis

air vice-marshal francis `` frank '' frederic inglis cb , cbe -lrb- 22 june 1899 -- 25 september 1969 -rrb- was a british officer in the royal air force who became the head of raf intelligence staff during the second world war , reporting to winston churchill .
in 1942 he was sent to america by churchill , where he successfully persuaded president franklin d. roosevelt to direct the main american war effort against germany rather than japan .
