Carl Andrew Spaatz quotes

Carl Andrew Spaatz quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.”
-- Carl Andrew Spaatz

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“Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors.”
-- Carl Andrew Spaatz

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“In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower has evolved into a force in war co-equal with land and sea power, decisive in its own right and worthy of the faith of its prophets.”
-- Carl Andrew Spaatz

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“If we succeeded, we will have the primary satisfaction of ending the war”
-- Carl Andrew Spaatz

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