Word: spaatz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enemy Standard. German propagandists, hating and fearing Harris and Spaatz, called them the "aerial bandits." But the Germans themselves had established the first bombing standards for World War II. In the celebrated blitz of 1940-41, German planes attacked Britain with an average of 200 tons of bombs a night for about 100 nights. The "measuring stick" raid on Coventry saw about 275 tons fall in seven hours...
...Country Club. Tooey Spaatz is one of a little group of officers who kept the tiny Army Air Corps a going concern in the U.S. after World War I. The rest of the Army might snicker about "the Flying Country Club" and its publicity tricks, but the airmen kept right...
...Arnold led a bomber flight to Alaska. Jimmy Doolittle was the first man to fly across the U.S. in less than 24 hours. Major General William Kepner (the Eighth Air Force fighter commander) flew around in a stratosphere balloon. Spaatz himself commanded the famous endurance flight of the Fokker monoplane Question Mark. In his crew were Lieut. General Ira Eaker, now Allied air commander in the Mediterranean, and Brigadier General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, Ninth Air Force fighter commander in Britain...
...Unteachable Gambler. Then as now, Spaatz was a shy and silent yet strangely gregarious man, who loved to have people around him, and could open up and talk fluently-especially on air power. At games he is an insatiable (and unteachable) gambler, and a hard competitor. He plays...
...Spaatz had the advantage of being a West Pointer, as well as an early birdman. By the time World War II broke out he was chief of the Air Corps plans section in Washington, and in 1940 he went to England to observe air war at first hand. That summer he wrote home...