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...Forces also got its own general staff. In organization, at least, the air arm is now an air army, comparable to the ground army. To head his staff, "Hap" Arnold, the Chief of the Army, picked Brigadier General Carl M. Spaatz, who last week was upped to two stars and command of the Combat Command. "Tooey" Spaatz's successor as Chief of Air Staff, appointed last week, is Major General Millard F. Harmon, studious, West Point-trained onetime-cavalryman and pursuit pilot...
...General Tooey [Carl] Spaatz, of the Air Corps, recently back from London, goes around wearing some tweedy thing that he picked up over yonder, and the town is full of rank and importance and anyone less than a Major is practically an Okie. But they all go around pretending to be grocers, morticians. . . . The odd part of it is that . . . Army officers in mufti, as a rule, look as if they had just crossed the continent by day coach in a slow train and hadn't undressed for a week...