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Yaleman Beirne Lay Jr. (I Wanted Wings) was commander of the 48th Bomb Group when he was shot down over France (the French underground rescued him and he was back in England three months later). Sy Bartlett, aide-de-camp to General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, was one of the first U.S. Air Forces men to arrive in England, flew on many a mission over Europe and later over Japan. Their book, for all its embarrassing concessions to scenario requirements, is an exciting, credible record of what was felt and endured by the first U.S. bomber crews to tangle with...
...authorized Army strength the Administration had asked for. The increment of manpower was for the Air Force, the Navy and the Marines. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Capitol, the Senate Armed Services Committee listened sympathetically as Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, backed by General Carl Spaatz, said once again that anything less than 70 groups would be inadequate. The Senators indicated that they would make their own decision this week, and that it would be for 70 groups...
...fought the good fight for a separate air arm. When the fight was won, he had become the independent Air Force's first Chief of Staff. Last week, following the earlier example of Hap Arnold, Jimmy Doolittle and others of the little group of pioneer U.S. birdmen, Tooey Spaatz retired...
...replace him, Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington chose Spaatz's second in command, General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, 49. A favored nephew of Michigan's influential senior senator, Gen. Vandenberg rates as an able, affable officer, long on administrative ability, short on personal force...
...Vandenberg had forged a brilliant career. He was commander of the Ninth Air Force in World War II, head of Army's G-2 and later Director of Central Intelligence for all the armed forces. He was Deputy Commander of the A.A.F. before he succeeded Ira Eaker as Spaatz's vice chief of staff...