Word: spatz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then they signed the letters with their cold, official signatures: Lieut. Dean E. Hallmark, Lieut. William G. Farrow, Sergeant Harold A. Spatz. They were the Doolittle flyers who had bombed Tokyo in the first spring of war and had been taken prisoner. Soon after, they were executed by the Japanese...
...Troubadour. The man in whose hands rests the thunderbolt has had a typical veteran U.S. air-force man's career. It varied from the norm only in details. In 1899-at the age of eight-redheaded Carl Spatz (later changed to Spaatz) was the youngest linotype operator in Pennsylvania. He operated the machine in the Boyertown, Pa. print shop where his Pennsylvania Dutch father and grandfather published the Berks County Democrat. Carl had a happier time playing the guitar, which Father Spatz taught him in the evening. Father Spatz, who became a state senator, got him an appointment...
During the postwar days of aviation Tooey Spaatz (who added the extra "a" because frequent mispronunciations of Spatz as "Spats" instead of "Spots" sent him into a fury) became one of the faithful around Billy Mitchell. In 1942 he was serving as Chief of the Air Force Combat Command, when he was suddenly yanked out and sent to England to command and train the Eighth Army Air Force...
...week that the Japanese would severely punish four captured airmen for their "inhuman act" in bombing Tokyo, everyone thought it was more Jap eyewash. Then the Japs came out with names and addresses (Lieut. William J. Farrow, of Darlington, S.C.; Lieut. Dean E. Hallmark, Dallas, Tex.; Sergeant Harold A. Spatz, Lebo, Kans.; Corporal Jacob D. Deshazer, of Madras...
Born 50 years ago into a Pennsylvania Dutch family as Carl Spatz (one a), the new Chief of the Army Air Force Combat Command has taken a good deal of kidding because of his name. About five years ago, tired of hearing strangers address him as General Spats, he added the extra a, indicating clearly that "Spots" was how he heard it. It still sounds, as it is, a German name, but Carl Spaatz believes in facing right up to that kind of thing. In 1940, while visiting an English airdrome near London, he signed his name and occupation...