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MONDAY, 3 MAY 1943
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force)
In Iceland, Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews, the USAAF officer
who
is Commanding General European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army
(ETOUSA),
is killed in an aircraft crash while landing. There has been
speculation
over the years whether Andrews instead of Eisenhower would have
commanded
the Allied forces in Europe if he had lived. Camp Springs Army Air
Field,
Camp Springs, Maryland was renamed Andrews Army Air Field (now Air
Force
Base) in 1945 in his memory.
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