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Better than Hollywood. The most diverse flying team of World War II went into North Africa with Jimmy Doolittle. His own 12th Air Force, spawned and trained by Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's 8th in Britain, toted a battalion of U.S. parachutists 1,500 miles from Britain to Oran (previous paratroops record: the Luftwaffe's 325-mile hop from Namsos to Narvik). U.S. fighter pilots in British Spitfires took off from British carriers, strafed Vichy columns and airdromes, met a few French Dewoitine fighters in Algeria. British Fleet Air Arm pilots in Albacore torpedo-bombers also fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Job for Jimmy | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Meshing two air forces into one offensive force is a tough and tremendous job. For the most part the job is being done well and rapidly, by men who have become close friends. Two of London's boon companions are Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, the U.S. air commander in Britain, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command. Their bonds: flying and poker. They and other officers play often, but they seldom finish a game. Spaatz and Harris usually forget the cards, fall to telling each other how they can beat Hitler from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: How to be Allies | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Private Hammond symbolically went free in a jeep, the townspeople cheered. He still awaited the disciplinary verdict of Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Test Case | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Hale Frank, 56, is Air Service Command chief, a highly vocal disciplinarian and the only West Pointer in the group besides his boss. "Tooey" Spaatz. "Tony" Frank is a belligerent partisan of air power. Officers left behind in Washington agreed "Tooey Spaatz, like every other officer, has spent 20-odd years picking the staff he would want for a time like this, and now he's got it. And those boys aren't over there for English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: To the Front | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...Tooey" Spaatz knew that he would do little flying beyond chases from field to field on his inspection tours. For the time being, his job too was heavily weighted with housekeeping affairs. New airdromes must be built to make room for the U.S. Air Forces. General Spaatz's command had to be accented strongly on the side of ground-bound outfits: Engineers, Air Forces supply men, Air Base groups. These outfits will operate airdromes, build overhaul depots to put planes back in running order when major crackups or plain wear & tear put them out of the fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: The A.E.F. in Britain | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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