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...Navy section Alexander has personally visited close to a hundred Army and Navy posts, ranging all the way from Pearl Harbor to Britain, where he spent two months last fall, hopping from airfield to airfield, bunking with the American flyers, renewing his acquaintance with Air Forcemen like Generals Doolittle, Eaker and Spaatz...
...There air men learn such new developments as Chennault's winning mass-fighter tactics; the deadly skip-bombing developed by the late Major William G. Benn of MacArthur's Air Force; the countless tricks of navigation, gunnery and high-altitude bombing developed the hard way by Ira Eaker's Flying Fortressmen and Liberator crews over France and Germany...
...tried to say "Bombs away!" All he could get out was "Bombs-." He did not live to see the bombs split the target. He did not live to hear, as the others in the outfit did, of Winston Churchill's message to Major General Ira C. Eaker, calling the raid "a brilliant exploit, the effectiveness of which the photographs have revealed"-nor to hear General Eaker's answering promise: "We will repeat these efforts many times, and on an ever-increasing scale...
...round-the-clock raids, instead of more massive but sporadic attacks, had been best set forth by Major General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain. His reasons: 1) to inflict maximum damage; 2) to keep enemy defenses on a 24-hour alert; 3) to force maintenance of both day & night fighters in Western Europe...
Possibility. World War II has the beginnings of an air theater envisioned by Billy Mitchell in Britain, where Sir Arthur Harris' Bomber Command and Ira Eaker's Eighth Air Force have more than the nucleus of the kind of organization airmen want, to prove or disprove their doctrine for all time. But the force is not yet prepared to hit Germany day & night with full strength. And even if it is built to that strength, the proof will not be conclusive. Men on the ground in Russia and in North Africa have weakened Germany too much...