Carl Andrew Spaatz (born Spatz; June 28, 1891 – July 14, 1974), nicknamed "Tooey", was an American World War II general. As commander of Strategic Air...
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uniform. The General Carl A. Spaatz Award is Civil Air Patrol's highest cadet award and honor. The award honors General Carl A. Spaatz, who was the first...
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Spaatz may refer to: Spaatz Island, Antarctica Carl Spaatz (1891–1974), US Air Force general Carl A. Spaatz Field, at Reading Regional Airport, Pennsylvania...
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Reading Regional Airport (redirect from Carl A. Spaatz Field)
Airport (IATA: RDG, ICAO: KRDG, FAA LID: RDG), also known as Carl A. Spaatz Field, is a public airport three miles (5 km) northwest of Reading, in Bern...
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Air University (United States Air Force) (redirect from Carl A. Spaatz Center for Officer Education)
to award master's degrees. Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Carl A. Spaatz Center for Officer Education USAF Air War College (AWC) Air Command...
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general of the Army Air Forces during World War II. His successor, Carl A. Spaatz became the first chief of staff of the Air Force upon the establishment...
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United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, commanded by General Carl A. Spaatz. Because of the complementary roles of the United States Army and the...
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instructor) Barney M. Giles Curtis LeMay Emmett "Rosie" O'Donnell, Jr. Carl A. Spaatz Hoyt S. Vandenberg In World War II, the Bomber Mafia's theory of the...
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Air Force United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific General Carl A. Spaatz Major General Curtis E. LeMay Twentieth Air Force (Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining)...
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("?") was a modified Atlantic-Fokker C-2A transport airplane of the United States Army Air Corps. In 1929, commanded by Major Carl A. Spaatz, it was flown...
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Chief of Air Corps, selected personally by its head, Brigadier General Carl Spaatz, whom he had met at the Command and General Staff College. In September...
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that emerged was a gigantic attack on Berlin") ^19.70 "Directives Agreed by DCAS, RAF, and Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz", Spaatz Collection, Box 15...
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United States Army Air Forces (redirect from U.S.A.A.F.)
reorganization plan it had rejected a year before, this time crafted by Chief of Air Staff Brig. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz. When this plan was not given any consideration...
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Defense. The U.S. Army is headed by a civilian senior appointed civil servant, the secretary of the Army (SECARMY), and by a chief military officer, the chief...
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relationships with the men who became his main aides, executive officer Captain Carl A. Spaatz and adjutant 1st Lieutenant Ira C. Eaker. Five months later Arnold became...
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Documents, 1941–1945; Box No.: 48: HQ, U.S.S.T.A.F{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location (link) Spaatz, Carl (5 March 1944), [memo to Eisenhower for the] Plan...
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returning home from a NEB meeting in August 1948. Retired U.S. Air Force General Carl A. Spaatz assumed the position of Chairman about a week after Colonel...
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Lt. Col. Lewis H. Brereton, Lt. Col. John N. Reynolds, Major Carl A. Spaatz, Major Melvin A. Hall, and Captain Reed M. Chambers. These were the only ratings...
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a memo ranking the military capabilities of his subordinate American generals in Europe. General Bradley and the Army Air Forces General Carl Spaatz shared...
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in all five types of vehicles in their films. Carl Andrew Spaatz, US Air Force general Spaatz Island, a large ice-covered island of Antarctica Spat (disambiguation)...
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and four other officers (Lt. Col. John N. Reynolds, Major Carl A. Spaatz, Major Melvin A. Hall, and Captain Reed M. Chambers) the rating of "Military...
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Eric Boe (redirect from Eric A. Boe)
Georgia, in 1983. He was a cadet in the Georgia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol. While a cadet, Eric Boe earned the General Carl A Spaatz Award, the highest award...
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Program. ISBN 0-16-049781-7. Mets, David R. Master of Airpower: General Carl A. Spaatz. Presidio Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-89141-639-5 "Campaign Diary". Royal...
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transferred a group of experienced officers headed by Lt. Col. Carl A. Spaatz to his headquarters as an unofficial air staff to lay out a plan that would...
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Stange Sound (redirect from Spaatz Island)
island by the RARE (1947-48) under Finn Ronne. Named by Ronne for Gen. Carl Spaatz, Chief of Staff, United States ArmyAF, who gave assistance in providing...
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General Carl A. Spaatz established a new policy, "No tactical commander should be subordinate to the station commander". This resulted in a search for a better...
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Phillip S. Hoyt S. Vandenberg: The Life of a General (1989) Mets, David R. Master of Airpower: General Carl A. Spaatz (1988) Arnold, Henry H. Global Mission...
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This is a list of airports in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, grouped by type and sorted by location. The list includes public-use and military airports...
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punishment. Carl Spaatz, commander of U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe (USSTAF), responded on June 28 to "complain that Crossbow was a 'diversion'...
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USASTAF on 2 July 1945, it would have a headquarters in Guam and be commanded by General Carl Andrew "Tooey" Spaatz, and consisted of the combat commands...
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