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...Army Air Forces revealed the name of their European theater commander. He is wiry, weatherbeaten Major General Carl Spaatz (TIME, Feb. 9), a military flyer since the year after he was graduated from West Point (1914). "Tooey"* Spaatz (rhymes with Swatz) won the D.S.C. for knocking down three German planes in World War I, the D.F.C. for commanding the Question Mark in the Army's famed refueling flight (6 days...
From that exalted eyrie where top-ranking U.S. Air Force officers clasp the crag, a new eaglet stretched his wings and soared. Succeeding to the job which Lieut. General Delos Emmons left when he took over the Hawaiian Department, Major General Carl Spaatz became Chief of the Army Air Force Combat Command...
...ability to fly hard & fast in World War I, the U.S. decorated "Tooey" Spaatz with a D.S.C.; for stamina in commanding the record-breaking endurance flight of the Question Mark in 1929, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Within the last year the Army has assigned him three big jobs...
Sandy-haired, hardworking, energetic, Carl Spaatz is one of the best-liked men in the Air Forces. He is also something of a legend. Trained at West Point, Spaatz entered aviation on the ground floor, flew in Mexico in 1916 with General Pershing's expedition. In 1917, assigned to build up an Aviation Instruction Center for Americans in Issoudun, France, he did such a bang-up job that the Army ordered him back to the U.S., to do the same thing at home. Tooey temporized, begged to see action first...
...taken a good deal of kidding because of his name. About five years ago, tired of hearing strangers address him as General Spats, he added the extra a, indicating clearly that "Spots" was how he heard it. It still sounds, as it is, a German name, but Carl Spaatz believes in facing right up to that kind of thing. In 1940, while visiting an English airdrome near London, he signed his name and occupation in the visitors' book: "Brigadier General Carl Spaatz...