Volume 37, Number 5 · March 29, 1990
The Doctrine of Destruction
By Lord Zuckerman
Master of Air Power: General Carl A. Spaatz
by David R. Mets
Presidio, 430 pp., $22.50
The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944–1945: Allied Air Power and the German National Railway
by Alfred C. Mierzejewski
University of North Carolina Press, 285 pp., $35.95
General Carl Spaatz was Commander in Chief of all the US Air Forces that fought in Europe during World War II—in numbers, probably the largest assemblage of aircraft that ever came under one man's direct control. After Germany's surrender on May 8, 1945, General 'Hap' Arnold, the Chief of Staff of the Army Air Forces, wanted him to assume the corresponding position in the war against Japan. General MacArthur, the Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific, disagreed. Spaatz was therefore sent to command the US Eighth Air Force, whose redeployment from the United Kingdom was just beginning, and of a fleet of 'Superfortresses,' the new B-29s.
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