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- Curtis Emerson LeMay, the tough bomber general who directed the smashing of German and Japanese cities during World War II and then built the Strategic Air Command into a powerful nuclear strike force, died Monday of a heart attack. He was 83.
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Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was a US 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.
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 yesterday...
General Curtis Emerson LeMay died on 1 October 1990, at March Air Force Base in Riverside County, CA. He is buried at the U.S. Air Force Academy Cemetery in Colorado Springs, CO. He was survived by his wife, Helen, who died on 16 February 1992 and is now buried next to her husband.
Winning Armageddon is a revisionist history of the military thought of Curtis LeMay while he was commander of Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 1948–57. Drawing heavily on LeMay’s private pa-pers, in particular his working diaries, historian Trevor Albertson (Air Command and Staff Col-
Oct 2, 1990 · Curtis Emerson LeMay, the tough bomber general who directed the smashing of German and Japanese cities during World War II and then built the Strategic Air Command into a powerful nuclear strike...
Oct 10, 2021 · Post-war Commanding General SAC 16 October 1948 to 30 June 1957. 1961-1965 he was Air Force Chief of Staff. Retired 1 February 1965. In 1928 Curtis LeMay joined the USAAC as a flying cadet. He was commissioned in 1929-30 as 2nd Lieutenant. In 1937 he was transferred to bombers.
From 1957 to 1961 he served as the 5th Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and from 1961 to 1965 as the 5th Chief of Staff. He retired in 1965 as a U.S. Air Force 4-Star General, and ran as...
