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...Others: Major "Tooey" Spaatz, later to become head of the Strategic Air Forces, and first Chief of Staff of the new Air Force (1947); Captain Ira Eaker, later commander of the Eighth Air Force and finally Spaatz's deputy...
...Force General Carl Spaatz (ret.) : "Sometimes I wonder if soldiers or politicians are better able to take care of our affairs...
Hopper is a member of a four man committee which includes General Carl Spaatz, Retired, Brigadier, General Clark, Retired, and Lieutenant General Harmon, Chief of the U.S. Air Component to the U.N. the committee has been touring the country since November 20 narrowing 29 possible locations for an aviation West Point down...
...only civilian on the committee, Hopper has been associated with aviation since World War I when he fiew 29 bomber missions and when he also became acquainted with Spaatz...
Under the Oak Tree. At war's end Hap Arnold turned over his command to General Carl Spaatz with a laconic, "Take it, Tooey, it's all yours." He added defiantly: "I'm going out to my ranch in the Valley of the Moon to sit under an oak tree. From there I'll look across the valley at the white-faced cattle. And if one of them even moves too fast, I'll look the other...