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Under this reorganization, the air arm became the Army Air Forces. It is divided into two parts: Air Corps, which does the housekeeping (training, maintenance, etc.) and Combat Command, which does the fighting. There were many other innovations-a Ferrying Command, Air Service Command, etc. After years of an amorphous existence, the Air Corps was organized...
...general staff. In organization, at least, the air arm is now an air army, comparable to the ground army. To head his staff, "Hap" Arnold, the Chief of the Army, picked Brigadier General Carl M. Spaatz, who last week was upped to two stars and command of the Combat Command. "Tooey" Spaatz's successor as Chief of Air Staff, appointed last week, is Major General Millard F. Harmon, studious, West Point-trained onetime-cavalryman and pursuit pilot...
...Army-was made without a single dissenting vote; the Senate took only 27 minutes for debate. If the sum was colossal (enough to build thirty-four $366,000,000 Panama Canals), so was its purpose: to build 10,000 trainer planes and 23,000 combat planes, armed capapie. The appropriation will forestall a lag in production due next August, when present orders begin...
...that exalted eyrie where top-ranking U.S. Air Force officers clasp the crag, a new eaglet stretched his wings and soared. Succeeding to the job which Lieut. General Delos Emmons left when he took over the Hawaiian Department, Major General Carl Spaatz became Chief of the Army Air Force Combat Command...
Born 50 years ago into a Pennsylvania Dutch family as Carl Spatz (one a), the new Chief of the Army Air Force Combat Command has taken a good deal of kidding because of his name. About five years ago, tired of hearing strangers address him as General Spats, he added the extra a, indicating clearly that "Spots" was how he heard it. It still sounds, as it is, a German name, but Carl Spaatz believes in facing right up to that kind of thing. In 1940, while visiting an English airdrome near London, he signed his name and occupation...