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...closing of that circle gave grim satisfaction to the man who commands U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe, brisk, wiry, peppery Lieut. General Carl Spaatz...
...bombers could shuttle back & forth, pounding from all sides at Germany's heart, destroying the enemy whom "Tooey" Spaatz hates. That hate and satisfaction he shared with Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris of the R.A.F., his collaborator in bringing more physical damage to Germany than the Germans had felt since the Thirty Years...
After D-day there would still be strategic bombing-Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz's day bombers would perhaps be as busy as they are now and Air Chief Marshal "Bert" Harris would still send his heavies deep into Germany by night. But the strategic bombers would no longer have the show entirely to themselves, to put their theories, tactics and tools to the only real test. What they had accomplished by that day would have to stand as the interim report on air power used as a single weapon against a big and highly developed industrial nation...
...Knockout. There could be no formal report, of course, yet top airmen Tedder, Spaatz, Harris, Anderson, Eaker, Brereton and the rest must be turning over in their minds what such a report should be. It would be short of the claims of Billy Mitchell, but in the main it would nonetheless be favorable...
...major general: Lieut. General Brehon Somervell (permanent rank, colonel); Lieut. General Jonathan Wainwright (brigadier general); Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell (brigadier general). To brigadier general: Lieut. General George C. Kenney (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Mark Clark (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Carl Spaatz (colonel); Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker (lieutenant colonel...