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    Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was an American Air Force general who implemented an effective but controversial strategic bombing...
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    Wallace's momentum went into reverse after he selected Curtis LeMay as his running mate. Curtis LeMay's suggestion of using tactical nuclear weapons in Vietnam...
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    theoretical strategy, Major General Hansell was replaced by Major General Curtis LeMay, who utilized tactical changes such as attacking Japanese population...
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  • Air Force General Curtis LeMay, Hollywood actor John Wayne, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as possible running mates. Benson and LeMay expressed interest...
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    air-war was the largest. Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force Curtis LeMay stated that "we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age". On March...
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    General Curtis LeMay. Random House Value Publishing. ISBN 0-517-55188-8. Crane, Conrad C. (1994). The cigar that brought the fire wind: Curtis LeMay and the...
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  • published by HarperCollins in 2004. His second book, LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay was released in 2009. In October 2010, he delivered...
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    George Wallace (category Articles with unsourced statements from May 2019)
    Force was commanded by General Curtis LeMay, who was his running mate in the 1968 presidential race.) While some may argue that Wallace did not espouse...
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  • in the fact-based 2006 Disney football drama Invincible and General Curtis LeMay in the 2000 historical drama Thirteen Days. He played the fictional Buster...
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    cross-section in mind. Initially, a bomber variant of the A-12 was requested by Curtis LeMay, before the program was focused solely on reconnaissance. The SR-71 was...
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    Asked to list the outstanding people who served under him, Major General Curtis LeMay named 19 officers from the 3rd Air Division. About Harry he wrote: "...
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  • League Curtis Joseph (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey goaltender Curtis Lazar, ice hockey player Curtis Lee (1939–2015), American singer Curtis LeMay (1906–1990)...
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    (2011). LeMay The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay. Regnery History. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-59698-769-2. Potts, James Ivan Jr. "General LeMay's crew, Tinian...
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  • (CINCSAC) Louise Fletcher as Mrs. Kemler, Sergeant Kemler's wife General Curtis LeMay, USAF (former head of the Strategic Air Command and serving at the time...
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  • Arthur Harris, Alger Hiss, Brian Horrocks, Traudl Junge, Toshikazu Kase, Curtis LeMay, Vera Lynn, Hasso von Manteuffel, Bill Mauldin, John J. McCloy, Lord...
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    (Democrat) as its presidential candidate and retired U.S. Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay (Republican) as the vice-presidential candidate. Wallace ran on every...
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    Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (category Articles with unsourced statements from May 2016)
    them without causing widespread damage to surrounding areas. General Curtis LeMay stated why he ordered the systematic carpet bombing of Japanese cities:...
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    Cuban Missile Crisis (category EngvarB from May 2020)
    Keating on a trip to Washington in early October. Air Force General Curtis LeMay presented a pre-invasion bombing plan to Kennedy in September, and spy...
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  • Milius was writing a script for a biopic about U.S. Air Force general Curtis LeMay, which Zemeckis would have directed. On November 26, 2009, Zemeckis had...
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  • Lemay or LeMay may refer to: Curtis LeMay (1906–1990), United States Air Force general Dorothy LeMay, American "adult" actress Harding Lemay (1922–2018)...
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    to drop on large Japanese cities, its top commanders, such as General Curtis LeMay, used napalm bombs to continue with fire raids. In the European Theater...
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  • clearly patterned after the real SAC commander of the time, General Curtis LeMay. Dutch is given a staff job with the bombardment wing at Carswell that...
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    effectiveness, especially the B-29 forces commanded by Major General Curtis LeMay in India, China, and the Mariana Islands. McNamara established a statistical...
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    target, this group headed out over the Alps and on to Algeria. Colonel Curtis LeMay was group leader on the Regensburg mission. Blakely was flying a new...
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    the 1940s and 1950s Ella Koon, Tahitian-born Hong Kong singer-actress Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force general and 1968 independent vice presidential...
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    often small and dispersed factories within them. Under Major General Curtis LeMay, the U.S. 20th Air Force, based in the Mariana Islands, undertook low-level...
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    Muskie, and American Independent Party candidates George Wallace and Curtis LeMay. As vice president, Agnew was often called upon to attack the administration's...
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    on served as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Curtis LeMay, General John D. Ryan and General Larry D. Welch. United States Strategic...
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    M16 rifle (category Articles with unsourced statements from May 2010)
    In July 1960, General Curtis LeMay was impressed by a demonstration of the ArmaLite AR-15. In the summer of 1961, General LeMay was promoted to U.S. Air...
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  • (notably the Chief of the Air Force, General "Rammer" Curtis, based on the real-life General Curtis LeMay) are portrayed as the saviors of the nation. During...
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