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LeMay and initially
He was assigned initially in September 1954 as an operations planner in the bomber mission branch and remained there until January 1955, when Gen. Curtis LeMay selected him as his aide.

LeMay and started
LeMay started shortly after his arrival at SAC, by having SAC planners draw up Emergency War Plan 1-49, which involved striking seventy Soviet cities with 133 atomic bombs over a thirty day period in an effort to destroy Soviet industrial capacity.
Faced with these poor results, Curtis LeMay started a series of reforms in an effort to address the problems.

LeMay and flying
LeMay became known for his massive incendiary attacks against Japanese cities during the war using hundreds of planes flying at low altitudes.
LeMay piloted one of three specially modified B-29s flying from Japan to the U. S. in September 1945, in the process breaking several aviation records at that date, including the greatest USAAF takeoff weight, the longest USAAF non-stop flight, and the first ever non-stop Japan – Chicago flight.
The 13th School Group and its 47th and 53rd School Squadrons provided primary and basic flying training for future Air Force leaders such as Hoyt Vandenberg, Nathan Twining, Thomas Power and Curtis LeMay.
( Lieutenant LeMay was fined $ 50 for flying a biplane through Selfridge Hangar # 6.
In early December 1947, Gen. Curtis LeMay asked for an update on the flying saucer investigation.

LeMay and supplies
To slow the enemy advance, Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault of the Fourteenth Air Force asked for raids on Japanese supplies at Hankow, and the Joint Chiefs directed LeMay to hit the city with firebombs.

LeMay and into
It was this uncertainty that LeMay entered into upon assuming command of SAC which emboldened him and SAC planners to attempt to unilaterally form American nuclear strategy.
LeMay headed SAC until 1957, overseeing its transformation into a modern, efficient, all-jet force.
Evidence of LeMay's thinking is that, in his 1965 autobiography ( co-written with MacKinlay Kantor ) LeMay is quoted as saying his response to North Vietnam would be to demand that " they ’ ve got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we ’ re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.
Owing to his unrelenting opposition to the Johnson administration's Vietnam policy and what was widely perceived as his hostility to Secretary McNamara, LeMay was essentially forced into retirement in February 1965 and seemed headed for a political career.
According to Goldwater, an angry LeMay gave him " holy hell " and said, " Not only can't you get into it but don't you ever mention it to me again.
In November 2006, it was announced that General LeMay would be one of the inductees into the SCCA Hall of Fame in 2007.
Chennault was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in December 1972, along with Leroy Grumman, Curtis LeMay and James H. Kindelberger.
According to Goldwater, an angry LeMay gave him " holy hell " and said, " Not only can't you get into it but don't you ever mention it to me again.
On August 20, LeMay arrived to breathe new energy into the XX Bomber Command.
At the same time, Kennedy got into arguments with proponents of the air strikes, such as Air Force General Curtis LeMay.

LeMay and Berlin
Though LeMay is sometimes publicly credited with the success of the Berlin Airlift, it was, in fact, instigated by General Lucius D. Clay when General Clay called LeMay about the problem.

LeMay and then
In August 1944, LeMay transferred to the China-Burma-India theater and directed first the XX Bomber Command in China and then the XXI Bomber Command in the Pacific.
In the B-29 campaign, Curtis E. LeMay relieved Kenneth B. Wolfe in India in July 1944, then Hansell on Guam in January 1945.
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.
Wilson, chief of staff to Lt. General Curtis LeMay, head of the Office of Research and Development of the then Army Air Force, which furnished equipment for RARE.

LeMay and decided
Consequently LeMay, while being fully aware of Wallace's segregationist platform, decided to throw his support to Wallace and eventually became Wallace's running mate.

LeMay and was
It was under the leadership of LeMay that SAC developed the technical capability, strategic planning, and operational readiness to carry out its strategic mission anywhere in the world.
When LeMay assumed command of SAC, his vision was to create a force of nuclear-armed long-range bombers with the capability to devastate the Soviet Union within a few days of the advent of war.
But the reality when LeMay assumed command was that SAC had only sixty nuclear capable aircraft, none of which had the long-range capabilities he desired.
A key factor enabling the B-47 to become the mainstay of SAC ( and to fulfill LeMay ’ s desire for a long range bomber ) was the development of in-flight refueling.
During LeMay ’ s command, SAC was able to effect great changes in American nuclear strategy.
This was done by LeMay in a 1951 meeting with high level Air Force staff, when he convinced them that unreasonable operational demands were being placed on SAC and, in order to alleviate the issue, SAC should be allowed to approve target selections before they were finalized.
As a result, LeMay was relieved when the Korean War ended in 1953 and he was able to go back to building SAC ’ s arsenal and gaining control over nuclear strategy.
Submitted in a command-wide contest, it was chosen as the winner by a three judge panel: General Curtis E. LeMay, Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command ; General Thomas S. Power, Vice Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command ; and Brigadier General AW Kissner, Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command.
In 1949 Curtis LeMay was placed in command of the Strategic Air Command and instituted a program to update the bomber fleet to one that was all-jet.
Curtis Emerson LeMay ( November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990 ) was a general in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of American Independent Party presidential candidate George Wallace in 1968.
Curtis Emerson LeMay was born in Columbus, Ohio, on November 15, 1906.
His father, Erving LeMay, was at times an ironworker and general handyman, but he never held a job longer than a few months.
LeMay was widely and fondly known among his troops as " Old Iron Pants " throughout his career.
When the U. S. entered World War II in December 1941, LeMay was a major in the United States Army Air Forces ( he had been a 1st lieutenant as recently as 1940 ), and the commander of a newly created B-17 Flying Fortress unit, the 305th Bomb Group.
LeMay was later placed in charge of all strategic air operations against the Japanese home islands.
In January 1945 LeMay was transferred from China to relieve Brig.
LeMay was quite aware of 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, especially in view of Japanese executions of uniformed American flight crews during the 1942 Doolittle raid.
As a Lieutenant Colonel who served under LeMay, Robert McNamara was in charge of evaluating the effectiveness of American bombing missions.
The order was ostensibly given because of borderline weather conditions in Washington, but according to First Lieutenant Ivan J. Potts who was on board, the order came because LeMay had one fewer general's stars and should not be seen to outperform his superior.
After World War II, LeMay was briefly transferred to The Pentagon as deputy chief of Air Staff for Research & Development.

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