Word: spaatz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima (pop. 344,000) and its great quartermaster depot raised a great, mushrooming cloud of dust and smoke which no reconnaissance camera could pierce. It was no propaganda flash in the pan. General "Tooey" Spaatz and his new chief of staff, Major General Curtis LeMay (see below), were ready with the atomic wherewithal to give Japan the awful rain promised by President Truman. That rain was bound to make the war shorter than it would have been. But how much shorter...
...Strategic Air Forces. In that executive capacity, just when the B-29s were getting a new atomic weapon which might change the whole concept of war, he would run the B-29 show under the overall supervision of the U.S.'s top strategic airman, wise, imperturbable General Carl Spaatz. In Spaatz's command were both Twining's Twentieth and Lieut. General "Jimmy" Doolittle's Okinawa-based Eighth Air Force...
foot soldier ever touched a beach on Honshu. To command this force, "Tooey" Spaatz, director of the strategic campaign against Germany, was an obvious choice, both by seniority and accomplishment...
...Spaatz already had his team - Doolittle and Twining - who had done the job for him in the European theater. He also had in Curt LeMay a brilliant tactical commander; LeMay's know-how in Pacific battle and B-29 operations had to be spread through the enlarged strategic air forces. So while LeMay's officers grumbled a bit at a good man and a crack leader being taken from tactical command, their black-browed boss was moved...
Where the LeMay career will lead depends on the kind of men the postwar air world will require. Many "old" Air Forces generals of 50 and above swear they are going to leave the A.A.F. to younger men at war's end. After his tour as Spaatz's chief of staff, and after his bosses have learned the mysteries of the Pacific and the biggest bombers, LeMay probably will join a selected group of younger generals being trained in staff duty in Washington for the postwar years -generals like Hoyt Vandenberg, Lauris Norstad, Elwood ("Pete") Quesada. Until then...