Received wisdom holds that JFK’s finest hour as commander-in ... long-time chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and General Curtis LeMay, the abrasive Air Force chief of staff.

If you've seen the classic Stanley Kubrick film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," you're familiar with Gen. Curtis E. LeMay — sort of. The four-star Air ...

The NATO commander, General Lauris Norstad, and two Air Force generals, Curtis LeMay and Thomas Power ... more or less—and every time they met in battle, JFK’s fresher way of fighting prevailed.

Gen. LeMay was a serious war-monger and NUTCASE ... yelled then Navy chief George Anderson upon hearing on October 28, 1962, how JFK "solved" the missile crisis. Adm. Anderson was the man ...

Legend has it that Gen. Curtis E. LeMay once stood under a B-36 Peacemaker, lit cigar in hand. When a subordinate warned him that the bomber might catch fire and explode, LeMay replied: ...

“We don’t have any choice except direct military action,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Curtis LeMay added. The blockade, he worried, will provide the Soviets with time to hide their ...

Gen. Curtis LeMay in 1956. The façade of the new U.S. Strategic Command headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base, with cloth covering the name being given to the building at a ceremony Monday.

University of Virginia Miller Center presidential recordings program chair Marc Selverstone discussed the relationship between General LeMay and President Kennedy.