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Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was an American Air Force general who implemented an effective but controversial strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II. He later served as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, from 1961 to 1965.
- 1929–1965
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Jul 3, 2019 · Curtis LeMay (November 15, 1906NOctober 1, 1990) was a U.S. Air Force general who became famous for leading a bombing campaign in the Pacific during World War II. After the war, he served as the leader of the Strategic Air Command, the U.S. military division responsible for most of the country's nuclear weapons.
Mar 21, 2024 · Curtis E. LeMay (born Nov. 15, 1906, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.—died Oct. 1, 1990, March Air Force Base, Calif.) was a U.S. Air Force officer whose expertise in strategic bombardment techniques was important during World War II and afterward. Entering the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1928, LeMay advanced to the position of bombardment group commander by ...
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General Curtis Emerson LeMay is the fifth chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. The general was born at Columbus, Ohio, in 1906. He attended Columbus public schools and Ohio State University. In 1928 he entered the armed services as a flying cadet.
Jan 21, 2022 · From bomber general and self-professed war criminal to head of Strategic Air Command, Curtis LeMay divided America but always kept it safe. Incredibly, in May 1938, even as war loomed in Europe, the U.S. Navy had no Atlantic Fleet to defend the East Coast.
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Dec 15, 2022 · Curtis LeMay’s new and devastating bombing tactics laid waste to Tokyo and killed tens of thousands of civilians—and that was just the start. by James M. Scott 12/15/2022. America’s incendiary bombing campaign of Japan began in Tokyo on March 9, 1945, and continued across the country. Here Kobe burns on June 5.
General Curtis LeMay was the foremost advocate of massive B-29 raids on Japan. This article appears in: January 2004. The nightmarish vision that the Japanese high command had hoped to forestall with its Special Attack Unit raids on American airbases in the Marianas did, with devastating effect, become reality in the spring of 1945.
