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US Army Air Corps Cadet Curtis LeMay, circa 1930 | Two B-17A bombers flying past Italian ocean liner Rex, Mar 1937 |
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Brigadier General Haywood Hansell and Colonel Curtis LeMay in front of B-17F “Dry Martini – The Cocktail Kids 4” at Chelveston, England, on the occasion of Hansell’s last combat flight, 4 May 1943. | General Joseph Stilwell and Major General Curtis LeMay at an American airfield in China, 11 Oct 1944 |
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US Army Lieutenant General James Doolittle and Major General Curtis LeMay at 8th Air Force headquarters, High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom, 1945; note a tail boom of a P-38 Lightning behind them | LeMay bombing leaflet; over 5 million of them were delivered to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and 33 other Japanese cities by 1 Aug 1945, encouraging Japanese citizens to flee from cities for safety |
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US Air Force portrait of Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay, circa 1948 | US Air Force portrait of General Curtis LeMay, circa 1951 |
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US Air Force General Curtis LeMay with his signature cigar watching an early atomic bomb test from a US Navy ship, early-1950s | US Air Force General Curtis LeMay, mid-1950s |
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Official US Air Force portrait of Curtis LeMay, late 1950s or early 1960s | President John Kennedy with SAC Chief General Curtis LeMay and SAC Vice-Chief Lieutenant General Thomas Power at Strategic Air Command HQ, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 1962 |
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US Air Force Chief-of-Staff General Curtis LeMay meeting with President John F. Kennedy along with the U-2 pilots who photographed Soviet missiles on Cuba, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 | US Air Force Chief-of-Staff General Curtis LeMay attending NATO exercises outside Paris, France, 28 May 1962 |