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...Heavies. The Luftwaffe was almost down & out. For that, Air Marshal Coningham and his tactical flyers were glad to yield most of the credit to Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's strategic heavy bombers and their fighter escorts. The strategic crews had taken on the Luftwaffe in the air and smashed it in its factories on the ground. They had cut it down - at considerable cost to themselves - to the point where it could only rise intermittently and over the most vital objectives...
...natural, kindly, down-to-earth as ever. But he is a strict disciplinarian with the troop formations under his command. He is a bear on uniform neatness, a bug on such items of military smartness as saluting. Once in Eighth Air Force headquarters he took General "Tooey" Spaatz down because West Pointer Spaatz, steeped in the Air Force ways of offhand efficiency, had banned saluting in the corridors as a damned nuisance...
...Tooey was anxious to make a start on his greatest assignment: knocking the props from under the German air force. His plan was ready, with six top-priority factories listed for destruction in the first paralyzing blow...
...Tooey's gamble turned out well. By next evening the results were in. The icing condition had not developed. Instead of 200 planes, 41 had been lost. Four of the six targets had been smashed, the other two severely damaged. From that night on, Tooey kept them flying. In the comparatively brief time this super-power bombing had to work, it forced the Luftwaffe to become an in-&-out air force, fighting hard one day but refusing battle the next...
...Tooey Spaatz believes thoroughly in the principle of joint operations by land, sea and air to win the final victory; he and his men will carry out their assignments bravely and well. Afterward there will be time for a wistful wondering: What could air power alone have achieved, if time and the logic of history had been altogether on its side...