Bounding up the steps of the river entrance to the Pentagon, Four-Star General Curtis LeMay, 50, hard-boiled boss of the Air Force’s Strategic Air Command, rolled his ever-present panatela ...

John Aldaz On January 26, 1950, when General Curtis E. LeMay, commander of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command, attended yet another conference to discuss the next U.S. long-range heavy ...

A group of activists is calling for the revocation of a Japanese government honor given to U.S. Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, who masterminded the devastating firebombing of Tokyo during World War II.

Curtis LeMay (centre) with US President John F. Kennedy at a Florida air force base in 1962. Photo: AP US soldiers inspect buildings destroyed by a B-29 bomber in Tokyo in June 1945.