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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...
...group commander, Colonel William K. Skaer, talked matter-of-factly for a minute about the mission, then added: "We have no official word of the Japanese surrender proposal, but tonight's mission has been canceled." Thereafter, General Carl Spaatz decided, his Superforts and long-range fighters should stay aground-unless the Japanese dillydallied too long over surrender terms...
...fourth (Spaatz) stage of the B-29 operations had begun. In all stages, including the newest, Curtis LeMay was inextricably wrapped. More than any other combat airman, he had become the V.L.R. (Very Long Range) man of the war against Japan...
Before the Tenth Army (under General MacArthur's command) on the island of Okinawa (supposedly under Admiral Nimitz' command), Lieut. General James H. Doolittle of the Eighth Air Force (under General Spaatz's command) made a brash speech. He said the naming of a single, overall commander for ground, sea & air forces in the Pacific was essential for victory over Japan. The confused command situation surrounding Doolittle gave his remarks added point...
...commander of any future offensive. But MacArthur's statement provoked Nimitz to the mildest of replies. For the record, he pointed out, "Control of all naval and naval air forces, naval bases and naval installations" in the Ryukyus remains in his command; the strategic bombers remain under Spaatz's command. Spelling it out, Nimitz emphasized that naval commanders in the Ryukyus report direct to him-not through MacArthur...