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Apr 30, 2024 · Curtis E. LeMay 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 1942.
Jan 21, 2022 · Perhaps only his troops remember LeMay, who died in 1990 at age 83, for that. Today he’s regarded more as history’s greatest proponent of strategic bombing—relentless and ruthless—but in the end Curtis LeMay was not pro-war, he was pro-victory. “If you go to war,” he maintained, “you go to win it.”.
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.
LeMay was a staunch advocate of strategic bombing and continuously looked for ways to improve its effectivness. The most memorable of a string of firebombing raids was delivered against Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945. It was also the first test of LeMay’s new doctrine of low-level attack.
Nov 29, 2022 · In Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb (W.W. Norton, 2022), author James M. Scott writes about the incendiary bombing raids on Japan—especially Tokyo—that the United States military carried out in the spring of 1945.
Curtis LeMay (1906-1990) was an American pilot and United States Air Force general, known as one of the more aggressive military commanders of the Cold War. LeMay was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of an ironworker. As a child, LeMay became fascinated with aeroplanes and was determined to become a pilot.
Oct 2, 1990 · Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, the former Air Force chief of staff who was an architect of strategic air power and insisted that the nation be willing to use nuclear weapons when necessary, died...
