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...House Military Affairs Committee called in a whole array of experts: State Secretary Byrnes, War Secretary Patterson, Chief of Staff Eisenhower, Chief of Naval Operations Nimitz, the Air Forces' General Spaatz. Many a Congressman not on the committee tried to crash the closed hearing without success...
Last week Secretary of War Patterson, Army Chief of Staff Eisenhower and A.A.F. Boss Spaatz unrolled the figures again. By July 1 this year, the Army will need 1,550,000 men for occupation forces, home defense and replacements. Within a year it will be cut to 1,070,000-a figure it must maintain until the need for occupation is over. Of the total Army strength, the Air Forces want...
From Washington to the Central Pacific, the atom clans were gathering: physicists, chemists, seismologists, meteorologists, biologists, physicians, oceanographers. The chiefs of all three armed services-General Eisenhower, General Spaatz and Admiral Nimitz-were coming to their party. Ships of all types were loading in U.S. ports, or were already headed for the Marshall Islands, where Bikini, the chosen atoll, awaited Crossroads...
President Truman had just given him one of the nation's three most important command jobs: chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Wasn't everyone surprised that the announcement had come so soon? "Tooey" Spaatz, amiable man of few words, continued to shave, back turned. When would he officially take over? "About Feb. 15." Was it possible he still might enter Pennsylvania politics? "I might have if they hadn't offered me Arnold...
...after 42 years of soldiering, 34 years of it in the air, seven years of it as boss of the air forces. The Army's birdmen had flown a long way from the Army's nest in that time, would soon fly away, never to return. Tooey Spaatz, sure by all signs to boss the U.S.'s first separate Air Force, had big plans for the future...