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...evening, Tin Pan Alley tunes, thumped and wheezed from a piano and an accordion, split the African darkness. The racket came from a rococo Moorish villa which soldiers in the area call "Souk*-el-Spaatz." But the concerts are only occasional. Most of the time Souk-el-Spaatz is a silent hive of conspiring and conferring men. It is the headquarters of the air war being waged by the Allies in Tunisia...
...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...
...Kans. This week he was in command of a hatful of crack U.S. generals, at least one admiral and all the expedition's allied ground, sea and air units. Under his shrewd, blue eyes was a country bristling with such names as Tizi-Ouzou, Bougie and Ksar es-Souk, steeped in an ancient, bloody history written around such figures as Hannibal and Hamilcar...