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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.
Designated as Commanding General 2: Gen Curtis LeMay: 19 October 1948: 30 June 1957 (1906–1993) Designated as Commanding General (1948–1953) and Commander (1953–1957) Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force (1957-1961) Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force (1961-1965) 3: Gen Thomas S. Power: 1 July 1957: 30 November ...
General Curtis E. Lemay was appointed Spaatz's Chief of Staff. [4] Guam was the headquarters of the XXI Bomber Command and until the arrival of the Eighth Air Force would provide the bulk of men and equipment of the new command. [2]
It lasted for two hours. The raid was a success beyond General LeMay's wildest expectations. The individual fires caused by the bombs joined to create a general conflagration, which would have been classified as a firestorm but for prevailing winds gusting at 17 to 28 mph (27 to 45 km/h). [5]
The second full-scale strike did not occur until 7 July 1944. By then, Arnold, impatient with Wolfe's progress, had replaced him temporarily with Brigadier General LaVern G. Saunders, until Major General Curtis E. LeMay could arrive from Europe to assume permanent command. Unfortunately, the three-week delay between the first and second ...
The second aircraft's commander was Major General Curtis LeMay, Chief of Staff of the Strategic Air Forces. First Lieutenant J. Ivan Potts served as one of the pilots, as did Lieutenant Colonel William C. Kingsbury—the two had been a flight team in the 25th Bombardment Squadron (Very Heavy) of the 58th Bombardment Wing, Very Heavy , based on ...
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.
Arnold relieved XX Bomber Command's commander, Brigadier General Kenneth Wolfe, shortly after the raid on Yawata when he was unable to make follow-up attacks on Japan due to insufficient fuel stockpiles at the bases in China. Wolfe's replacement was Major General Curtis LeMay, a veteran of Eighth Air Force bombing attacks against Germany. [57]