Word: souks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be up to the planners and plotters of Souk-el-Spaatz to defeat the Luftwaffe, support their own troops while they maul the Axis and block the enemy's evacuation from Tunisia. Their thunderbolt is an air weapon, but they have designed it to strike when & where it will best aid the men and weapons on the ground. This integration was the great achievement of Spaatz & Co.; how to achieve it was something they had learned the hard...
...Forces do not have the R.A.F.'s complete independence, but they do have operational autonomy. In Africa Spaatz's airmen found themselves operating with the same freedom enjoyed by the R.A.F. Said one U.S. officer at Souk-el-Spaatz: "The high command merely says 'The air force will take care of that...
...Souk-el-Spaatz the entire air command has become an interlacing of U.S. warp and British woof. For every staff office held by a Briton, an American occupies an opposite number. Tedder calls Spaatz "Tooey"; Spaatz calls Tedder "Arthur." It is Arthur who occasionally in the evening plays U.S. tunes on the piano. Tooey, who is a guitar virtuoso, broods because he has no instrument with him. The French are scouring Algeria for one so Tooey can join...
...Plot. The tactics which the plotters of Souk-el-Spaatz have worked out are probably based on Tedder's tactics in the Egyptian campaign...
Early last December he was sent to North Africa. There he learned, last week, that he had been made a lieutenant general. Spaatz has few relaxations: squash, fishing, poker, which he plays with a sometimes wild abandon, betting, according to his wife, "on anything." But at Souk-el-Spaatz, he plays less & less. His habitual tension has increased. Recently he wrote to Mrs. Spaatz: "I'm looking forward to the day when we can reoccupy our shack . . . own a boat on the Potomac and float up & down on the tide." The "shack" is the comfortable, 133-year-old home...