Word: tooey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S original cover portrait of General "Tooey" Spaatz of North African fame hangs on the wall of his wife's home in Washington...
That air power was being wielded with fluid brilliance by a pair of past masters: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, as Commander in Chief of Allied Mediterranean Air Command, and Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, as Commander of the Northwest African Air Force. Their main striking weapons were Major General James H. Doolittle's Strategic Air Force (heavy bombers over main objectives in the enemy rear) and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham's Tactical Air Force (close support of the embattled ground forces). Together they formed an almost perfect team, welded and tempered in the African victory...
Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, U.S. commander of the Northwest African Air Force, last fortnight spelled out this fact and what it means, incidentally throwing much light on recent activities and immediate prospects in the Mediterranean. Air power, he said, has now proved that it can reduce any military obstacle. But, he also said, it can do so only if it is assembled in overpowering force: the Allies did not propose to apply it until they were certain that the force at hand was sufficient for the job. General George C. Marshall, in his sobering speech the same week (TIME...
...habitual tension has increased. Recently he wrote to Mrs. Spaatz: "I'm looking forward to the day when we can reoccupy our shack . . . own a boat on the Potomac and float up & down on the tide." The "shack" is the comfortable, 133-year-old home in Alexandria which Tooey bought one week before...
...Tooey Spaatz was probably kidding himself. He looks forward to action. After Tunisia is cleared out, Axis bases on Pantelleria and Lampedusa must be blasted off the face of the Mediterranean, the great Axis strongholds on Sicily and Sardinia reduced, Italy or the Balkans-whatever the route-pummeled and softened for the invading Allied armies. It will be a long time before Tooey Spaatz floats up & down on the tidewater of the Potomac...