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What caused this was not the 1,000-plane-a-night potential with which Anglo-U.S. air power may some day cripple the German war effort. Bomber Commanders Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris and Major General Carl Spaatz were doing what they could with what they had-and it was no mean bomb tonnage. The R.A.F. Bomber Command threw its big punches at night. It hurled a great 600-plane raid at Kassel (locomotives, aircraft, engines), ranged 900 miles northeast to Gdynia to strike at submarines under repair. Another night it was over Nürnberg (diesel engines...
Meshing two air forces into one offensive force is a tough and tremendous job. For the most part the job is being done well and rapidly, by men who have become close friends. Two of London's boon companions are Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, the U.S. air commander in Britain, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command. Their bonds: flying and poker. They and other officers play often, but they seldom finish a game. Spaatz and Harris usually forget the cards, fall to telling each other how they can beat Hitler from...
...Private Hammond symbolically went free in a jeep, the townspeople cheered. He still awaited the disciplinary verdict of Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz...
...Forces in Europe: "We are not here to sit on our back ends and be on the defensive. We are here on the offensive. They talk about a second front. All I can say is-the sooner the better." Promising an attack "within the immediate future," Major General Carl Spaatz, Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces in Britain, declared: "Our enemy at the appointed time will feel the might of a thoroughly coordinated British-American air force...
Hale Frank, 56, is Air Service Command chief, a highly vocal disciplinarian and the only West Pointer in the group besides his boss. "Tooey" Spaatz. "Tony" Frank is a belligerent partisan of air power. Officers left behind in Washington agreed "Tooey Spaatz, like every other officer, has spent 20-odd years picking the staff he would want for a time like this, and now he's got it. And those boys aren't over there for English...