Word: spaatz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's Strategic Air Force (Superfortresses from Doolittle's Eighth and LeMay's Twentieth-TIME, July 16) will operate under neither Nimitz nor MacArthur. Its bosses: General "Hap" Arnold and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington...
This partially solved jigsaw puzzle still left out some stray pieces: the Army's Seventh Fighter Command, a part of the Seventh Air Force, is based mostly on Iwo Jima and under Navy command. It escorts not MacArthur's nor Nimitz' planes over Japan, but Spaatz...
...Pacific air war. At this point, the Eighth is responsible directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is obvious that an air chief will soon be needed on the spot, to coordinate the strategic bombing operations of LeMay and Doolittle. Best guess for the job: General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, the U.S.'s top air general at present unemployed...
Good Soldier Omar Bradley mounted the pulpit in the Central Christian Church of Moberly, Mo. Flyer Jimmy Doolittle flew his first Superfortress. Georgie Patton went to Sunday school; Carl Spaatz visited his 78-year-old mother (who told him: "You're just my baby boy"); leathery Alexander Patch brought back the gaudiest trophy yet: gewgawful Marshal Goring's diamond-studded marshal's baton...
...planes were knocked out in a single day of attacks by more than 6,000 Allied planes. The Luftwaffe apparently was flat on its back-812 of its planes had been splintered on their own fields. The total since April 1 was close to 3,000. General Carl A. Spaatz issued a special order of the day: the strategic air war had been won; hereafter U.S. heavy bombers would range on tactical missions...