Curtis LeMay

Also known as Curtis Emerson LeMay, Curtis E. LeMay, C. E. LeMay

American general and politician (1906–1990)

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Active from: 1966-07-25

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Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
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Quotes

“There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders.”
“Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.”
“We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?”
“If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground.”
“She America] escaped the ruin visited upon other nations because she was given time to prepare and because of distance. [In the next war] distance will be academic [and no preparation time, too].”
“I'll tell you what war is about, you've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.”

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Key facts

Other names: Old Iron Pants, The Demon, Bombs Away LeMay, The Big Cigar
Born: ( 1906-11-15 ) November 15, 1906, Columbus, Ohio , U.S.
Died: October 1, 1990 (1990-10-01) (aged 83), March Air Force Base , California, U.S.
Buried: United States Air Force Academy Cemetery
Allegiance: United States
Branch: United States Army United States Army Air Corps United States Army Air Forces United States Air Force
Service years: 1929–1965
Rank: General
Commands: Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command Twentieth Air Force XXI Bomber Command XX Bomber Command 3rd Air Division 305th Bomb Group
Conflicts: World War II Korean War Vietnam War
Awards: Distinguished Service Cross Army Distinguished Service Medal (3) Silver Star Distinguished Flying Cross (3) Air Medal (5) Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan)
Alma mater: Ohio State University ( BS )
Spouse: Helen Maitland ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1934 )
Political party: Republican
Other political affiliations: American Independent (1968)

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date of birth: 1906-11-15
date of death: 1990-10-01
name in native language: Curtis Emerson LeMay
date of burial or cremation: 1990-10-04

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Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was a US Air Force general who was a key American military commander during World War II and the Cold War, including the Korean War. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1961 to 1965.

LeMay joined the United States Army Air Corps, the precursor to the United States Air Force, in 1929 while studying civil engineering at Ohio State University. He had risen to the rank of major by the time of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and the United States' entry into World War II. He commanded the 305th Bombardment Group from October 1942 until September 1943, and the 3rd Air Division in the European theatre of World War II until August 1944, when he was transferred to the China Burma India Theater. He was then placed in command of strategic bombing operations against Japan, planning and executing a massive fire bombing campaign against 66 Japanese cities, and Operation Starvation, a crippling minelaying campaign in Japan's internal waterways.