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World War II: March 2001 From the EditorWorld War II Archives | 0 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post Later in the war, Eaker went on to command Allied air forces in the Mediterranean. His most famous and controversial raid during the Italian campaign was the bombing of the abbey at Monte Cassino during the Allied drive toward Rome. He returned to the United States in the spring of 1945 as deputy commander of the Army Air Forces and played a pivotal role in constituting the U.S. Air Force as a separate branch of the armed services. A grand old man of the Air Force, he died in 1987 at the age of 91. Subscribe Today
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