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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Carl Spaatz

1891 - 1974

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Carl Andrew Spaatz (born Spatz; June 28, 1891 – July 14, 1974), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Spaatz has received more than 354,361 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Carl Spaatz is the 1,338th most popular military personnel (down from 1,170th in 2019), the 4,763rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,210th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 21

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Carl Spaatz ranks 1,338 out of 1,468Before him are Harry Crerar, Semyon Bogdanov, Pavel Chichagov, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Filipp Oktyabrsky, and Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt. After him are Maher al-Assad, Charles Warren, Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, Constantine Diogenes, Sergei Shtemenko, and Ivan Gudovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Carl Spaatz ranks 155Before him are Zora Neale Hurston, Miguel Pro, W. Averell Harriman, Galaktion Tabidze, Harald Öhquist, and Ágnes Esterházy. After him are José Enrique Varela, Federico Moreno Torroba, Fred Kelly, Edmund Goulding, Sam Jaffe, and George Marshall. Among people deceased in 1974, Carl Spaatz ranks 127Before him are Pink Anderson, Berdi Kerbabayev, Mikheil Chiaureli, Sucheta Kriplani, Holger Meins, and Willem Marinus Dudok. After him are Alexander P. de Seversky, André Marie, Wolfgang Windgassen, Manuel A. Odría, Fred Kelly, and Georgette Heyer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl Spaatz ranks 4,763 out of 18,182Before him are Kevin Schwantz (1964), Fred Gwynne (1926), Gene Wolfe (1931), Megan Thee Stallion (1995), Steve Kanaly (1946), and Claudette Colvin (1939). After him are Steven Zaillian (1953), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), Big Joe Turner (1911), Muse Watson (1948), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), and Morris Swadesh (1909).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Carl Spaatz ranks 82Before him are Joseph Hooker (1814), Braxton Bragg (1817), Nelson A. Miles (1839), Courtney Hodges (1887), Christine Jorgensen (1926), and Hal Moore (1922). After him are J. E. B. Stuart (1833), Benjamin Briggs (1835), Tommy Franks (1945), William D. Leahy (1875), Richard Marcinko (1940), and Walter Bedell Smith (1895).