Word: spaatz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That air power was being wielded with fluid brilliance by a pair of past masters: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, as Commander in Chief of Allied Mediterranean Air Command, and Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, as Commander of the Northwest African Air Force. Their main striking weapons were Major General James H. Doolittle's Strategic Air Force (heavy bombers over main objectives in the enemy rear) and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham's Tactical Air Force (close support of the embattled ground forces). Together they formed an almost perfect team, welded and tempered in the African victory...
Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, U.S. commander of the Northwest African Air Force, last fortnight spelled out this fact and what it means, incidentally throwing much light on recent activities and immediate prospects in the Mediterranean. Air power, he said, has now proved that it can reduce any military obstacle. But, he also said, it can do so only if it is assembled in overpowering force: the Allies did not propose to apply it until they were certain that the force at hand was sufficient for the job. General George C. Marshall, in his sobering speech the same week (TIME...
...Alexander has personally visited close to a hundred Army and Navy posts, ranging all the way from Pearl Harbor to Britain, where he spent two months last fall, hopping from airfield to airfield, bunking with the American flyers, renewing his acquaintance with Air Forcemen like Generals Doolittle, Eaker and Spaatz...
...Spaatz Strums...
...receipt of a letter from General Spaatz acknowledging the guitar* and thanking our employes for it. He enclosed an official U.S. Army Air Corps photograph of himself holding the guitar (see cut) and stated "it will be put to good...