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    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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    when interrogation is completed — Top Secret telegram to General Carl Andrew Spaatz from General Jimmy Doolittle, August 1944 According to USAAF records...
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    Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and USAAF General Carl Andrew Spaatz. Roosevelt appointed Republican Wendell Willkie (who ironically ran...
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  • Donald K. Slayton (1996) C. R. Smith (1974) Frederick W. Smith (2007) Carl Andrew Spaatz (1967) Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1973) Lawrence Burst Sperry (1981) Thomas...
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    Vicente Lim, class of 1914 Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, class of 1914 Gen. Carl Andrew Spaatz, class of 1914 General of the Army Omar Bradley, class of 1915 General...
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    Regional 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,...
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    Battipaglia that was so thorough in its destruction that General Carl Andrew Spaatz sent him a joking message: "You're slipping Jimmy. There's one crabapple...
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    Sicily, France and Germany. He was known as "Old Blood and Guts". Carl Andrew Spaatz was commander of the Air Forces Combat Command with the rank of major...
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  • appeared 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...
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  • Kai-shek March 8 – Harry S. Truman March 15 – Elmer Davis March 22 – Carl Andrew Spaatz March 29 – Henri Giraud April 5 – Sir Thomas Beecham April 12 – George...
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    (R-PA)—Tunkhannock D. Brooks Smith, federal judge on Court of Appeals—Altoona Carl Andrew Spaatz, WWII general and first Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force—Boyertown...
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    significantly scaled back the strategic bombing of Germany. General Carl Andrew Spaatz redirected U.S. strategic bombing efforts to focus on German aircraft...
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    including work with air chief marshal Sir Arthur Harris and general Carl Andrew Spaatz. In October 1942, Stimson sent Rickenbacker on a tour of air bases...
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    Schoomaker (1982) H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1969) Walter Bedell Smith (1935) Carl Andrew Spaatz (1936) Donn A. Starry (1960) Joseph Warren Stilwell (1926) Gordon...
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    the war, several American generals, including Henry H. Arnold and Carl Andrew Spaatz, asked Trenchard to brief them in connection with the debate which...
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  • General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and General Carl Andrew Spaatz. He appointed Republican Wendell Willkie as a personal representative...
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    proposal other than to appropriately explore it". On August 2, General Carl Andrew Spaatz, commander of the United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe, expressed...
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  • significantly scaled back the strategic bombing of Germany. General Carl Andrew Spaatz re-directed U.S. strategic bombing efforts to focus on the German...
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    pioneer test pilot, who led the first aerial circumnavigation (1924) Carl Andrew Spaatz, first Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force Albert Spalding...
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    General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and General Carl Andrew Spaatz. He appointed Republican Wendell Willkie as a personal representative;...
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  • politician, and served as a Union general in the American Civil War Carl Andrew Spaatz – general in World War II Adolph von Steinwehr – served as a Union...
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    Solbrig (1870–1941) Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (1888–1989) Carl Andrew Spaatz (1891–1974) Commander Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. (1888–1950) Percival...
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  • O'Donnell Jr were able to attend, as were other USAAF generals such as Carl Andrew Spaatz and Jimmy Doolittle. In 1956, Romanian inventor Henri Coandă spoke...
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    Washington, D.C., as an assistant chief of staff. Brigadier General Carl Andrew Spaatz was head of the division. Lieutenant Colonels Olds and Muir S. Fairchild...
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    of United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific under General Carl Andrew Spaatz on July 5, 1945. Giles witnessed Japan's surrender aboard the battleship...
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    under General Dwight D. Eisenhower as Air Planner, and under General Carl Andrew Spaatz as Deputy Theater Air Officer. Marshall ordered Hansell to hurry back...
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    Prospects seemed dim until Major Carl Andrew Spaatz arrived on October 17. It took only a little pleading before Spaatz agreed to turn over his plane to...
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  • 1938 – present Lao Prince living in exile in France. Józef Sowinski Carl Andrew Spaatz Edmund Charles Spencer World War I veteran. Awarded the Légion d'honneur...
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  • would have a headquarters in Guam and be commanded by General Carl Andrew "Tooey" Spaatz, and consisted of the combat commands (VII Fighter Command, XXI...
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  • served as chief of staff of the Mediterranean Air Command. Under Carl Andrew Spaatz, Saville argued against the plans for Operation Tidal Wave in August...
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