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	Curtis LeMay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		LeMay soon concluded that his bombers were dropping their bombs near their targets only 5% of the time, and that losses of aircraft and crews were unsustainably high.
		LeMay was quite aware of both the brutality of his actions and the Japanese opinion of him - he once remarked that had the U.S. lost the war, he fully expected to be tried for war crimes.
		LeMay lost significant appropriation battles (for Skybolt ALBM, and the B-52 replacement, the XB-70.) His wish for a much more vigorous engagement in the Vietnam War (the quote "we should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age" is often attributed to him) did not come true.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curtis_Le_May (1725 words)

	Curtis E. Lemay The Enduring"Big Bomber Man"
		LeMay was given an emotional farewell by his men when he left the 305th in July.(26) The Job of division com- mander included an office at Elveden which was a far cry from the constant mud and grime at Chelveston.
		LeMay had made personal liaison with the service units of the 12th Air Force there, but due to the short notice of the raid and the fact that the 12th Air Force was fighting its own war, accommodations were much poorer than expected.
		LeMay's move to a staff job was in recognition of his superb efforts of the previous seven months.* He had created so much momentum against Japan that, with additional air forces and continuing deliveries of B-29s, victory was assured.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/report/1986/CTJ.htm (20003 words)

	Curtis E. LeMay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Curtis E. LeMay is one of the icons of American military history who rivals Mitchell in his importance and controversial career.
		Returning to the States, LeMay served briefly as the head of the AAF research and development effort, then was sent to Germany as commander of the air forces in Europe arrayed against the Soviets.
		LeMay was one of the coldest of America's cold warriors, and partly for this reason his tenure as chief was neither successful nor happy.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/cc/lemay.html (1463 words)

	Air Power:Curtis E. LeMay
		When Curtis LeMay saw his first airplane at the age of five, he felt it was "unique and in a way Divine." He wanted to become a pilot.
		LeMay observed operations and learned that the unit was only landing bombs near the target five percent of the time.
		LeMay lobbied to send the navy and SAC to surround the island and if need be, "fry it." If the Russians attempted to fight back, he was confident SAC could protect the country.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Air_Power/LeMay/AP36.htm (1628 words)

	LeMay--March 1998
		LeMay accepted the increased vulnerability of the long run-in, arguing that, overall, it was safer to fly a straight bomb run and knock the target out than to try to evade flak by jinking and have to return again and again.
		LeMay had a vision of SAC being so obviously powerful that it would be perceived by the enemies of the United States to be unbeatable and so deter them.
		LeMay was silent, then replied that he despised Wallace's policies and would never have run with him if he thought he had a chance at winning.
	www.afa.org /magazine/March1998/0398lemay_print.html (3661 words)

	Gen. Curtis LeMay & Bomber Deterrence
		When Gen. Curtis E. LeMay became commander of the Strategic Air Command in 1948 he was appalled at the lack of professionalism in his bomber crews.
		Curtis LeMay in an unfamiliar setting, the bridge of a Navy ship, watching one of the early atomic bomb tests that SAC carried out.
		LeMay was appalled and began an intense program of training and building up air bases around the country and eventually the world.
	www.nebraskastudies.org /0900/stories/0901_0121.html (868 words)

	General Curtis LeMay - Demented Cold Warrior
		LeMay was appointed Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force in 1957 and Chief of Staff in 1961.
		General Curtis E. LeMay, Air Force chief of staff, was characterized by one observer as always injecting himself into situations "like a rogue elephant barging out of a forest." There are many stories of LeMay's crudeness in dealing with his colleagues on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
		LeMay was a ringleader in the Joint Chiefs of Staff insofar as urging Kennedy to go to war in the Bay of Pigs and later in the Cuban missile crisis.
	www.geocities.com /lemaycurtis (1096 words)

	Reader's Companion to Military History - - LeMay, Curtis E. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After the war, LeMay was in charge of organizing and operating the 1948 American air supply of Berlin in the face of the Soviet blockade of that city, a task he successfully carried out with his usual aggressiveness and determination.
		As vice chief and then chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, LeMay was later involved in a number of Cold War crises, as well as in programs to improve air force weapons, systems, and operational procedures.
		LeMay's reputation as a ruthless advocate of the indiscriminate use of military power is undeserved.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/mil/html/mh_029400_lemaycurtise.htm (381 words)

	AllRefer.com - Curtis Emerson LeMay (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Curtis Emerson LeMay[lumA´] Pronunciation Key, 1906–90, U.S. general, b.
		Commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. army air corps in 1930, he advanced through grades and in World War II commanded a bomber group in Europe and later the 20th Air Force in the Pacific.
		LeMay was appointed (1948) commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command and in 1957 was also made vice chief of staff for the air force.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LeMay-Cu.html (248 words)

	Curtis E. Lemay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		General Curtis E. LeMay is one of America’s greatest military commanders.
		Later in 1943, Colonel LeMay, in command of the Third Bombardment Division, led the Regensburg shuttle bombing mission.
		Its commander, Curtis E. LeMay, recognized that the tactics used by B-17 units then in action were ineffective.
	www.au.af.mil /au/goe/eaglebios/88bios/lemay88.htm (555 words)

	The American Experience \| Race for the Superbomb \| General Curtis E. LeMay, (1906 - 1990)
		LeMay was convinced that the United States had been forced into the war in 1941 because the country was weak and unprepared.
		He immediately ordered a mock bombing raid on Dayton, Ohio, and was dismayed to discover that most of the bombers missed their targets by one to two miles.
		LeMay's career after his tenure at SAC was less successful.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX61.html (613 words)

	Stars & Stripes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Curtis E. LeMay, U.S. Air Force chief of staff, inspects an honor guard at the Japan Defense Agency during his April, 1963 visit to Tokyo.
		Jacob E. Smart, commanding general of U.S. Forces Japan and the 5th Air Force, arrive at the Stars and Stripes helicopter pad for a tour of the newspaper's Tokyo office.
		TOKYO — General Curtis E. LeMay, Air Force chief of staff, said Saturday he is proud of the growth of Japan, a country he tried to destroy 18 years ago.
	www.stripes.com /article.asp?section=126&article=21415&archive=true (455 words)

	Air Force Link - Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		In July 1957 General LeMay was appointed vice chief of staff of the United States Air Force and served in that capacity until July 1961, at which time he was appointed chief of staff.
		General LeMay graduated with a bachelor of civil engineering degree and is a distinguished alumnus of the College of Engineering, Ohio State University.
	www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=6178 (698 words)

	Curtis E. LeMay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lemay spent the early part of WWII in Europe, transferring to the China-Burma-India theater in July, 1944.
		He later commanded the 21st Bomber Command in Guam and became chief of staff of the Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific.
		General LeMay was appointed chief of staff of the Air Force in 1961 and remained there until his retirement in 1965.
	www.ussmissouri.com /Surrender/lemay.htm (132 words)

	127. Curtis Emerson LeMay (1906-90). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989
		And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power—not with ground forces.
		CURTIS E. Mission with LeMay: My Story, p.
		In an interview two years after the publication of this book, General LeMay said, “I never said we should bomb them back to the Stone Age.
	www.bartleby.com /73/127.html (173 words)

	American Rifleman Article - January 1985
		The USAF Marksmanship School was born of the conviction of Gen. Curtis E. LeMay that every airman should be capable of defending himself and his country with small arms.
		LeMay believed that training was inadequate and that this had been well proven during World War II and Korea when, time after time, airmen missed their targets with their primary weapon, the M1911A1.45 pistol.
		In due time he was ushered into the office of Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
	www.airforceshooting.org /ararticle.html (2805 words)

	THE GENERAL'S WIFE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1944, soon after the XX Bomber Command's B-29s started combat operations in the China-Burma-India Theater, Major General Curtis E. LeMay arrived as the new Commander.
		When General LeMay took command, our group was encountering severe mechanical problems with its early model B-29 airplanes.
		Curtis E. LeMay, wife of our Commanding General!" Since the listeners were already captured by the description of a lady who they knew had been on the base, they readily accepted this unsubstantiated statement as a collateral fact.
	www.40thbombgroup.org /matthews/Ira78.htm (717 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Curtis E. LeMay is without doubt one of the most controversial military commanders in U.S. history.
		LeMay was proud of the night attacks on Tokyo in which, as the postwar U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey put it, "probably more persons lost their lives by fire at [sic] Tokyo in a six-hour period than at any time in the history of man."
		LeMay's logic was vindicated only after the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused the Emperor to capitulate to American demands for an unconditional surrender.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20050313x2.htm (890 words)

	Encyclopedia: Curtis LeMay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bomber Command is an organizational military unit, generally subordinate to the air force of a country.
		Curtis E. LeMay, commander of the B-29Âfs of the entire Marianas area, declared that if the war is shortened by a single day the attack will have served its purpose."
		Operation Starvation was an American mining operation conducted in World War II by the Army Air Force, in which vital water routes and ports of Japan were mined by air in order to disrupt enemy shipping.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Curtis-LeMay (3904 words)

	Lemay, Curtis E. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		LeMay, Curtis E. Air Force combat commander and chief of staff.
		LeMay as a participant in panel discussion on Carl Spaatz, pp 39-55.
		Roman, Peter J. Curtis LeMay and the Origins of NATO Atomic Targeting.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/great/lemay.htm (807 words)

	USAF People - USAF Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Curtis Emerson LeMay was born at Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 15, 1906.
		The general's first tour of duty was with the 27th Pursuit Squadron at Selfridge Field, Mich. He served in various assignments in fighter operations before transferring to bomber aircraft in 1937.
		General LeMay participated in the first mass flight of B-17 Flying Fortresses to South America in 1938.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/afp/afp0198.htm (180 words)

	AFAF campaign enters final week; (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The LeMay Foundation provides financial aid to spouses who supported the careers of Air Force officers and enlisted personnel during many PCSs, changing schools midterm, raising the children in the absence of the spouse on TDY and other hardships.
		LeMay wanted those who were left behind to be able to live out their years safely and with dignity.
		Your contribution to the LeMay Foundation will enable surviving spouses to continue living in their own homes and community and not struggle to meet daily living needs.
	www.dcmilitary.com /airforce/andrews/1_12/local_news/5930-1.html (496 words)

	Curtis LeMay
		He is credited for creating an effective systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific Theatre of World War II and reorganizing the Strategic Air Command into an effective military force.
		The quote "we should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age" is often, if erroneously, attributed to him.
		A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/cu/curtis_lemay.html (714 words)

	THE 456th FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR SQUADRON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		An impetus to increased preparedness was the growing threat of military advancements by the Soviets, particularly their development of the thermonuclear hydrogen bomb, which they first tested in Aug. 1953.
		Although SAC was founded in 1946, it was General LeMay's driving force that made "SAC" into a household word and the most potent military force in history.
		Curtis E. Lemay appeared on the aviation scene in 1929 -- a young airpower enthusiast, fresh from pilot training, proudly wearing his wings and his Sam Browne belt.
	www.456fis.org /SAC.htm (813 words)

	Military Affairs (Library of Congress Manuscripts: An Illustrated Guide)
		Included are the papers of military heroes from George Washington, commander in chief of the Continental Army, to Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, commanding general of the Strategic Air Command and chief of staff of the United States Air Force after World War II.
		Interspersed between these two luminaries are the collected or personal papers of numerous career officers, volunteers, and noncommissioned officers and enlisted personnel, as well as war correspondents, military spouses, camp followers, and private citizens caught in the path of war.
		Eaker, Curtis E. LeMay, and Carl A. Spaatz, who were instrumental in assuring Allied victory by establishing the United States as the world's greatest air power.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/guide/military.html (1032 words)

	Curis e. lemay trophy - X-Plane.Org Forum
		war planners, like lemay, wanted to hurt the civilian population, to break their spirit in hopes that would end the war.
		Firstly I would like to say that I did not post this poll with the name Curtis E. LeMay in any attempt to glorify the man. Actually, I was just reading through on old Dale Brown book for the name of the bombing competition held at Barksdale each year.
		It's true, Lemay was the author of that terrible and regretable tokyo firebombing.
	forums.x-plane.org /index.php?showtopic=337 (1898 words)

	General and Mrs. Curtis E. LeMay Foundation
		Curtis E. LeMay Foundation, a national organization which provides financial assistance to widows of all retired Air Force personnel, is located on the premises.
		Helen LeMay was quite concerned that help was available only to Air Force widows in residence.
		To correct this imbalance she donated a substantial amount of money to be used to support all widows living in AFVW regardless of military service.
	www.afvw.com /lemay.html (330 words)

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		Crane, Conrad C. “The Cigar that Brought the Fire Wind: Curtis LeMay and the Strategic Bombing of Japan.” Paper, US-Japanese Mil Hist Exchange, Jun 1994.
		Strategic Air Warfare: An Interview with Generals Curtis E. LeMay, Le W. Johnson, David A. Burchinal, and Jack J. Catton.
		Curtis E. LeMay p.2 Zimmerman, Carroll L. Insider at SAC: Operations Analysis Under General LeMay.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usamhi/Bibliographies/ReferenceBibliographies/Biographies/lemaycurtis.doc (179 words)

	General Curtis E. LeMay
		The United States was extremely fortunate to have had a man like General Curtis E, LeMay come to the fore at
		LeMay was ready for combat every day of his military career because he
		LeMay knew that the initial airlift strength was inadequate for the task at hand, and
	www.konnections.com /airlift/clemay.htm (745 words)

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