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...group. The next higher formation is ... another group, a British one commanded by a British air commodore. This commander in turn is under another British officer, Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, head of the Tactical Air Force in Northwest Africa. Marshal Coningham is under American Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, who is under British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur W. Tedder, who in turn is responsible to American General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...speaker was Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, U.S. commander of Allied Air Forces in Northwest Africa. He was explaining an exercise in war and semantics -the movement of his forces from the realm of "superiority" to that of "supremacy." This had been achieved by the three arms of his command...
Coningham for Immediacy. The Tactical Air Force is under the command of Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, formerly the Eighth Army's brilliant air officer. It is, said General Spaatz, designed for "immediate results." Its job is to attack, with fighters and light and medium bombers, enemy troops, transport, airports and battle planes. One day last week, Air Marshal Coningham sent Marauders and Spitfires against 28 Axis planes parked on Oudna Field, south of Tunis; Hurri-bombers, Spitfires and Bostons against one large concentration of Afrika Korps vehicles; and Warhawks against another...
Doolittle for Long Ranges. The Strategic Air Force sends its bombers against enemy supply lines and rear bases. Said General Spaatz: "This group of flyers struck perhaps the hardest blows in daylight ever delivered by an air force." The commander of this group, U.S. Major General James H. Doolittle, had to be reminded last week that April 18 was the anniversary of his raid on Tokyo. He looked in his logbook, found an entry describing "a 13-hour flight - one landing," and said: "So it was." On a typical day last week his Fortresses found 112 Axis transport planes...
Lloyd for the Shores. The Coastal Air Force, said General Spaatz, "covered our shipping, protected our ports, made many reconnaissance flights to assure the arrival of our convoys and assisted in the destruction of enemy shipping." The commander of this force was last week identified as Air Vice Marshal Sir Hugh Pughe Lloyd, a short, thickset, rough, gruff veteran flyer who was commander of Britain's Mediterranean air forces in 1941-42. One day last week his Beaufighters caught enemy torpedo-bombers trying to attack Allied naval forces, shot down...