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...station is under the direct command of energetic Bomber Chief General Ira Eaker. Reveille is sounded at 7 o'clock by Bugler Thomas Pomparelli from New York, who is waked up by a $1.98 alarm clock. Working day is from 8:30 to 5:30, seven days a week, with duties being the "same as at home" except for unmentionable preparations for the future. An hour and a half is taken up with a choice of baseball, tennis, swimming, volley ball, outdoor badminton and even croquet. Dinner is at 7, with few complaints, as Americans are on double British...
...Commander of the Bomber Command, under General Spaatz, is husky, 46-year-old Brigadier General Ira Eaker (rhymes with baker), one of the Question Mark's pilots, first pilot to fly on instruments across the continent...
From then on he had plain sailing to the top. General Arnold worked prodigiously at his desk, flew prodigiously, never lost his grin. Articulate, facile with words, he wrote boys' books about a young flying hero; with rugged Major General Ira Eaker as collaborator, he began turning out books about air power. But the lessons of other days had stuck. Arnold and Eaker tore no hair, snatched no lapels from their readers' coats. Their books were sound, but conservative and well hedged. If Billy Mitchell turns out not to be 100% right, neither of them has anything...
Winged Warfare - Major General H. H. Arnold & Colonel Ira C. Eaker...
...book, Winged Warfare (Harper & Brothers; $3), West Pointer Arnold and his coauthor, Colonel Ira C. Eaker, were careful not to get out on the limb Billy Mitchell was sawed off on. In a 260-page discussion of the use of air power, closest Arnold-Eaker got to the limb were a few paragraphs carrying the unmistakable implication that a separate air force was inevitable...