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From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., he sees people. In a typical week he saw five admirals, two air marshals, two British generals and two American (Eisenhower and Spaatz). He sees all of the British and Dominions politicians who come to London, too. Many of these meetings are scheduled to last only 15 to 20 minutes. Sometimes, if the guest is an old acquaintance or proves particularly interesting, the audience goes on for an hour, or as long as the timetable will permit...
...Paymaster. In all England no one was happier about the results than a wry, freckled Pennsylvania Dutchman, Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, commander of U.S. strategic bombing forces. "Tooey" Spaatz is a hardboiled, able airman who has fought the battles of air power all the way from Washington to Britain to Africa and back to Britain again, shrugging off every disappointment, every setback, with the glumly philosophic phrase: "That's a helluva way to run a railroad...
...tons elsewhere in Europe (mainly in the Balkans). R.A.F. commentators made it clear that the two European air theaters are becoming one; before long all strategic bombing of Europe may be brought under a single command (U.S. Strategic Air Forces are already under one commander, Lieut. General Carl Spaatz...
...friends could doubt that he must be deeply disappointed at departing now, just when he had built his air force to the point of wrecking key German industries, with billiards-shark precision. In their long-distance strategic operations, both Eaker and Doolittle will be under Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz, another American member of Eisenhower's old Mediterranean team. A member of that team as yet unaccounted for is Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, the R.A.F.'s great expert in tactical bombing...
Lieut. General Carl Spaatz will lead "the entire American strategic bombing force operating against Germany." This decision officially put the air attack on a single sky front. It meant that both the U.S. Eighth Air Force, striking from Britain, and the U.S. Fifteenth, flying from the Mediterranean, would synchronize their blows. Up to now the R.A.F.'s strategic bomber force has been based largely in Britain, hence may require no inter-theater commander. Apparently, the U.S. Army Air Forces were to continue and increase strategic bombings from both British and Mediterranean bases...