Carl Spaatz
Spaatz, Carl (1891–1974), a United States Air Force officer. During World War II he commanded United States strategic bombing forces operating against Germany (1944–45) and Japan (1945). In 1946 Spaatz became the commanding general of the Army Air Forces and in 1947, the first chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force. Spaatz was born in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1914. During World War I, he fought in France as an aviator. He retired in 1948.