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Thus to the U.S., already great in military and scientific prowess, had come man's most destructive weapon. To the U.S. Army Air Forces had been given the means for complete destruction of Japan. General "Tooey" Spaatz and his Pacific flyers could now blow the enemy into the sea, for one atomic bomb dropped from one plane can wreak the same destruction as 2,000 B-29s (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
Deadpan, 38-year-old Major General Curtis E. ("The Cigar") LeMay, responsible for the B-29s' hugely successful low-level fire raids, had to give up his B-29 command for a new - and bigger - job last week. He became chief of staff to General Carl Spaatz, commander of strategic air forces in the Pacific. LeMay's beloved Twentieth Air Force got a new commander. The new man : smooth, handsome Nathan Farragut ("The Champ") Twining, 48, back in the Pacific (where he was once lost at sea for six days) after a distinguished job of long-range bombardment...
...General Krueger and Senator Vandenberg, Mrs. Jimmy Doolittle and the mother of General Mark Clark. TIME'S painting of General Patton is framed at his Massachusetts home "Green Meadow" - General Somervell's portrait is in his office at the Pentagon Building - and our painting of General "Tooey" Spaatz hangs on the wall of his wife's home in Washington ("I have never seen a picture of him half as good," she wrote Artist Baker...
...most localized testing ground-the great Okinawa base-there was evidence of inherent confusion. Into its 485 square miles were packed many thousands of men with many bosses: MacArthur had his ground forces, Nimitz his shore establishments and Spaatz was setting up his B-29 housekeeping command. In addition, both MacArthur and Nimitz had their own air commands...
Wags in the Pacific, only a little more enlightened by last week's air command changes, looked at the overall setup, cracked: "Spaatz will fly to Japan, Nimitz will swim and MacArthur will walk...