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 prohi…

- Carl Andrew Spaatz

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

In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evid…

- Carl Andrew Spaatz

If we succeeded, we will have the primary satisfaction of ending the war

- Carl Andrew Spaatz