Word: tooey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombers could shuttle back & forth, pounding from all sides at Germany's heart, destroying the enemy whom "Tooey" Spaatz hates. That hate and satisfaction he shared with Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris of the R.A.F., his collaborator in bringing more physical damage to Germany than the Germans had felt since the Thirty Years...
After D-day there would still be strategic bombing-Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz's day bombers would perhaps be as busy as they are now and Air Chief Marshal "Bert" Harris would still send his heavies deep into Germany by night. But the strategic bombers would no longer have the show entirely to themselves, to put their theories, tactics and tools to the only real test. What they had accomplished by that day would have to stand as the interim report on air power used as a single weapon against a big and highly developed industrial nation...
...Allied aircraft no German target was now out of reach. Even fighter planes (P-51 Mustangs) ranged as far as western Poland on bomber escort duty and earned special congratulations from Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, commander of all U.S. strategic bombing forces in Europe. The German defensive air force was obviously weakened in numbers, if not in fighting quality. Relentless air pounding along the French invasion coast had created an almost deserted zone, 50 miles deep...
From Italy and England, Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz's heavies blasted hardest at enemy airplane plants, but they also struck heavily at German fortifications on the coast, presumably in the spots where lighter craft had not done the job. Major General Lewis Brereton, boss of the Ninth (tactical) Air Force, which will give close support to the invasion, sent his mediums against the coast, airfields, railroad centers. Swarms of his fighter bombers also hacked from dawn to dusk, bored deeply inland...
With few exceptions, the day raids and the massive night assaults by the R.A.F. (biggest: 5,040 tons in one night) met with little or no German fighter opposition. This week, in a joint statement, the British Air Ministry and Tooey Spaatz gave their interpretation of this phenomenon...