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 ...

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.

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 ...

An icon of the U.S. Air Force; a remarkably creative tactician; and one of the Cold War's fiercest warriors; General Curtis LeMay led a colorful if extremely controversial career. From early on he ...

Apparently the USA military thought LeMay did a fine job as only a few years later he was put in charge of the air campaign in Korea. “Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 ...

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.

Air Force general Curtis LeMay, head of the strategic air command during the Korean War, estimated that the American campaign killed 20% of the population. “We went over there and fought the war ...