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Army's Ball. The Army, all out for merger, had kept the ball. All week, before the Senate Military Affairs Committee, the Army's best backs plunged down the field. Tough, sardonic Air General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, soon to be Chief of Army Air Forces, stressed the importance of air power in the "airpower age." Said General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower: "Unless we have unity of direction in Washington through the years of peace that lie ahead we may enter another . . . Pearl Harbor...
Younger Successors. To follow Marshall, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 54, is an overwhelming favorite. Insiders consider the Air Forces job a tossup between General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz (54) and his Texas-born lieutenant in the European theater, Lieut. General Ira Eaker (49), but an even younger...
Thus to the U.S., already great in military and scientific prowess, had come man's most destructive weapon. To the U.S. Army Air Forces had been given the means for complete destruction of Japan. General "Tooey" Spaatz and his Pacific flyers could now blow the enemy into the sea, for one atomic bomb dropped from one plane can wreak the same destruction as 2,000 B-29s (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...first bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima (pop. 344,000) and its great quartermaster depot raised a great, mushrooming cloud of dust and smoke which no reconnaissance camera could pierce. It was no propaganda flash in the pan. General "Tooey" Spaatz and his new chief of staff, Major General Curtis LeMay (see below), were ready with the atomic wherewithal to give Japan the awful rain promised by President Truman. That rain was bound to make the war shorter than it would have been. But how much shorter...
foot soldier ever touched a beach on Honshu. To command this force, "Tooey" Spaatz, director of the strategic campaign against Germany, was an obvious choice, both by seniority and accomplishment...