Word: spaatz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...principal conferees are four: shrewd, jug-eared Sir Arthur Tedder, dried-up, taciturn Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, wiry, ebullient Jimmy Doolittle and handsome Arthur ("Mary'') Coningham. They are a quartet of British and U.S. airmen who have one plan: to let loose a thunderbolt on the enemy...
...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...
...Graduates. Allied officers had compiled a fat, black book of errors which Spaatz and they hastened to correct. Instead of trying to identify each other in the heat of action, commanders of the various units would have to know in advance where and how each arm intended to operate at a given, precise time. Spaatz learned the German's science of establishing local air supremacy. He learned that, overnight, in an area where experience and reconnaissance indicated he would oppose 50 enemy fighters, the German strength would become suddenly 100 fighters. He learned that when the Germans intended...
...Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 52, skinny, acidulous Royal Air Force commander in the Middle East, would direct all air operations. His deputies: Air Marshal Arthur Coningham, the New Zealander who was his air operations chief in the desert, Major General Carl Spaatz, Chief of U.S. Air Forces in Northwest Africa...