| rdfs:comment | - Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was a General in the United States Army and, later, United States Air Force. He served as Chief of Staff of the Air Force during President John F. Kennedy's administration, where he repeatedly clashed with the Administration on several issues, including the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 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.
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| abstract | - Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was a General in the United States Army and, later, United States Air Force. He served as Chief of Staff of the Air Force during President John F. Kennedy's administration, where he repeatedly clashed with the Administration on several issues, including the Cuban Missile Crisis. He is credited with designing and implementing an effective systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. After the war, he headed the airlift of supplies to the beleaguered inhabitants of Soviet-occupied Berlin, Germany, then reorganized the Strategic Air Command (SAC) into an effective means of conducting nuclear war. LeMay retired from the military in 1965. In 1968 he entered politics, as the American Independent Party's vice presidential candidate, the running mate to George Wallace. Though the Wallace-LeMay ticket finished a distant third to Richard Nixon's and Hubert Humphrey's Republican and Democratic campaigns, it was one of only a handful of third-party tickets to carry states in the Electoral College, and was, as of 2015, the most recent to do so.
- 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. He is credited with designing and implementing an effective, but also controversial, systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II. During the war, he was known for planning and executing a massive bombing campaign against cities in Japan and a crippling minelaying campaign in Japan's internal waterways. After the war, he unintentionally initiated what is known remembered as the Berlin airlift, then reorganized the Strategic Air Command (SAC) into an effective instrument of nuclear war.
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