SURPRISE EXPRESSED
SPAATZ’S NEW APPOINTMENT London, Jan. 11. The appointment of Major-General Spaatz as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied air forces in North Africa has caused some surprise, says the Algiers correspondent of “The Times.” Air Marshal Sir William Welsh, of the R.A.F., who has hitherto been responsible to General Eisenhower, has worked in admirable agreement with Bri-gadier-General Doolittle, who is similarly responsible for the United States Twelfth Air Force.
To interpose one more officer between them and General Eisenhower seems only to support the current quip about the North African operations: “Never have so few been commanded by so many.”
General Spaatz’s retention of the command of the United States air forces in the European theatre seems also to indicate that he is concerned with maintaining the equilibrium of supplies of aircraft to the respective theatres.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 13 January 1943, Page 5
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