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Carl Andrew Spaatz, né le 28 juin 1891 à Boyertown et mort le 14 juillet 1974 à Washington, est un général d'aviation américain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il commanda les forces aériennes alliées occidentales en Europe contre l'Allemagne puis dans le Pacifique contre le Japon.
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 Forces in Europe in 1944, he successfully pressed for the bombing of the enemy's oil production facilities as a priority over other targets.
24 juin 2024 · Carl Spaatz was the leading U.S. combat air commander in World War II and the first chief of staff of the independent U.S. Air Force. A graduate (1914) of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, Spaatz served as a combat pilot during World War I and then acquired extensive staff.
29 juin 2017 · General Carl Andrew Spaatz is not well known by Americans today, yet he served as the senior air commander in the European theater after the United States entered World War II and masterminded the air strategy that helped defeat the Third Reich.
14 août 2019 · Carl Andrew Spaatz. Military. View all 30 images. Object Number - UPL 24001 - General Carl A. Spaatz. A few weeks after Pearl Harbor, in January 1942, General Spaatz was assigned as chief of the Army Air Force Combat Command at Washington and promoted to the temporary rank of major general.
General Carl A. Spaatz was the first chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. The general was born in 1891, in Boyertown, Pa. In 1910, he was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy. He graduated June 12, 1914, and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry.
1 déc. 2000 · Carl A. Spaatz, born in Boyertown, Pa., on June 28, 1891, became the first Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force in September 1947. For two years after the end of World War II, he had led the fight to separate the Army Air Forces from the Army and thereby create an independent air service.
