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...World War II, as commander of the Strategic Air Forces in Europe and later in the Pacific, Tooey Spaatz had led more men in air battle than any man before in history. He had earned Ike Eisenhower's accolade as "the world's greatest air strategist...
...General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz had a lot to remember. In World War I he had shot down three planes. In 1926, he had been a defense witness at Billy Mitchell's court-martial. In 1929, a major, he had commanded the Question Mark, which established the feasibility of refueling planes in mid-air-and drew some badly needed attention to a badly neglected Air Corps...
...Force's notion, in brief, is that the most destructive counterblows can be delivered by very heavy, long-range bombers, land-based. This thesis was propounded by Air Force General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz and vehemently seconded by Stuart Symington, who as a civilian producer of bomber gun turrets had visited London during the blitz and had never forgotten what he had seen there. Ground-force generals agreed with Spaatz...
Work. Winant believed that the British people would stand up under the bombing, and his task became one of selling his thesis to his superiors. (He pays a tribute to General Tooey Spaatz, who was sent to London by Roosevelt to measure Britain's chance of survival: "No man in the United States had a more accurate evaluation of the strength of the German air force...
Cheers for General Ike. By contrast, there were few fireworks in the convention hall. Guest speakers included New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Mayor William O'Dwyer, Defense Secretary James Forrestal, General Carl Spaatz, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, but almost every man spoke on the same subject-universal military training. Though there were 12,000 people in Madison Square Garden for the opening moments of the convention, the crowds dwindled after that...