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Major General Ira Eaker, U.S. bomber commander in Britain: "There are enough airdromes now built and building to "accommodate all the Allied air forces needed for the destruction of Germany. I believe it is possible to destroy the enemy from the air. By destroying his aircraft factories you can put an end to his air force. By destroying his munition plants and communications you can make it impossible for him to build submarines. There is nothing that can be destroyed by gunfire that cannot be destroyed by bombs...
...Focke-Wulf 190s and Messerschmitt 109s. They fought them on their own. And one page of what will have to be a book of proof, was complete. Gunners in the Fortresses knocked down three German planes, damaged at least nine more. But U.S. airmen and especially Bomber Commander Ira Eaker were interested in something more than that the Fortresses had beaten off an attack against overwhelming odds. They were most interested in the fact that again all the Fortresses got home (although one carried a dead copilot, a grievously wounded commander...
Last week the U.S. got another glimpse of suave Mr. Bullitt. A photograph from an Army operations headquarters "somewhere in England" (see cut) showed him walking with Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, Commander of the A.E.F., and Brigadier General Ira Eaker, head of the U.S. bomber command, who this week personally led a force of Flying Fortresses in a raid on occupied France (see p. 26). Then he went to Ireland, conferred for an hour with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera...
...Already on hand: Major General Carl Spaatz, Commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, and his bomber command chief, Brigadier General Ira Eaker (TIME, July...
...training his combat crews and starting tactical cooperation with the R.A.F., General Spaatz could leave details to his bomber commander, husky, seasoned, 46-year-old Major General Ira Eaker and to his fighter commander, whose name has not yet been announced. Real U.S. participation in big-scale bombing would have to wait until their organization work was completed and plenty of equipment was on hand...