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Carl Spaatz

United States Air Force general (1891–1974)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
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Carl Andrew Spaatz, 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. After VE Day he was transferred to the Pacific and assumed command of the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific. He became Chief of Staff of the newly formed United States Air Force in 1947.

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This entry incorporates text from “Carl Spaatz” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.