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...Already on hand: Major General Carl Spaatz, Commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, and his bomber command chief, Brigadier General Ira Eaker (TIME, July...
...Forces Commander in Britain (and therefore the General whose troops will first see action) is Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, 51, a hardbitten, freckled veteran who has been flying Army aircraft since the year after he left West Point...
...Tooey" Spaatz knew that he would do little flying beyond chases from field to field on his inspection tours. For the time being, his job too was heavily weighted with housekeeping affairs. New airdromes must be built to make room for the U.S. Air Forces. General Spaatz's command had to be accented strongly on the side of ground-bound outfits: Engineers, Air Forces supply men, Air Base groups. These outfits will operate airdromes, build overhaul depots to put planes back in running order when major crackups or plain wear & tear put them out of the fight...
...training his combat crews and starting tactical cooperation with the R.A.F., General Spaatz could leave details to his bomber commander, husky, seasoned, 46-year-old Major General Ira Eaker and to his fighter commander, whose name has not yet been announced. Real U.S. participation in big-scale bombing would have to wait until their organization work was completed and plenty of equipment was on hand...
...Commander of the Bomber Command, under General Spaatz, is husky, 46-year-old Brigadier General Ira Eaker (rhymes with baker), one of the Question Mark's pilots, first pilot to fly on instruments across the continent...