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Lieutenant Curtis LeMay in 1929. LeMay was born in Columbus, Ohio, on November 15, 1906.LeMay was of English and distant French Huguenot heritage. [3] His father, Erving Edwin LeMay, was at times an ironworker and general handyman, but he never held a job longer than a few months.
On the group's seventh mission, which lasted from 9 to 10 March 1945, XXI Bomber Command radically changed tactics at the direction of its commander, Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay, attacking Tokyo's urban center by night with incendiary bombs and at altitudes of only 6,400 to 7,800 feet, resulting in one of the most destructive attacks in history.
Up until 1954, the US Armed Forces exclusively provided radio broadcasts. Plans to introduce a television station were proposed to Gen. Curtis E. LeMay to boost morale for servicemen in US Air Force bases. [1] To this end, AFRS was renamed AFRTS on April 21, 1954.
Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle (left) with Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay (right), standing between tail booms of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning in Britain, 1944. In July 1942, as a brigadier general—he had been promoted by two grades on the day after the Tokyo attack, bypassing the rank of full colonel—Doolittle was assigned to the nascent Eighth Air Force.
Since little progress in the bombing campaign was being made, General Arnold recalled General Hansell and moved General Curtis LeMay from the inactivating XX Bomber Command in India to take over XXI Bomber Command on Saipan. General LeMay arrived in the Marianas on 20 January 1945.
The former defense secretary told Morris that Gen. Curtis LeMay had said that those responsible for the firebombing of Japanese cities during World War II — among them McNamara, then an Air ...
General Curtis LeMay is shown planning a daylight raid on Japan's industrial areas. Squadrons of B-29s then assemble and the audience rides with them through a space of ocean as wide as the US from Mexico to Canada , special attention being given to the island Iwo Jima , which is midway through the journey, the base for P-51 fighters that will ...
General Curtis LeMay was among the 1,000 on hand to greet the three planes, and he awarded all 27 crew members the Distinguished Flying Cross. Though Old called the flight "a routine training mission," the Air Force emphasized that the mission demonstrated its "capability to drop a hydrogen bomb anywhere in the world." [1]