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...Brehon B. Somervell, Chief of the Army's Services of Supply; the President's alter ego Harry Hopkins. In Africa they were joined by Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the North African AEF; by Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, deputy commander; by Major General Carl Spaatz, the AEF's air commander; by Lieut. General Frank Maxwell Andrews, Commander in Chief of American Forces in the Middle East; by William Averell Harriman, the U.S. Lend-Lease expediter in London. Also present was the President's son, Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt...
...Spaatz over Doolittle. The Allies also prepared. Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark was already shaping the various U.S. units in North Africa into the Fifth Army (TiME, Jan. 11). Last week British, U.S. and French air forces in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia were placed under the joint command of U.S. Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, who had organized the Eighth Air Force in Britain. Under him in Africa will be the R.A.F.'s Air Marshal Sir William Welsh, Major General Jimmy Doolittle, and General Jean Mendigal with his poorly equipped but zestful French airmen. General Spaatz presented...
When Major General Carl Spaatz asked Sergeant Gilger how he disposed of a Messerschmitt during a recent raid, the sergeant cropped his answer as closely as he crops his hair. "I shot him down," he said...
Better than Hollywood. The most diverse flying team of World War II went into North Africa with Jimmy Doolittle. His own 12th Air Force, spawned and trained by Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's 8th in Britain, toted a battalion of U.S. parachutists 1,500 miles from Britain to Oran (previous paratroops record: the Luftwaffe's 325-mile hop from Namsos to Narvik). U.S. fighter pilots in British Spitfires took off from British carriers, strafed Vichy columns and airdromes, met a few French Dewoitine fighters in Algeria. British Fleet Air Arm pilots in Albacore torpedo-bombers also fought...
Said Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, handing them over to Major General Carl M. Spaatz: "Goodby and thank you Eagle Squadrons 71, 121, 133 of the Fighter Command, and good hunting to you." At week's end they were off on their first raid over France wearing U.S. Army wings. Four Focke-Wulf 190s crashed under their guns...