LeMay, Curtis

LeMay, Curtis E., with McKinlay Kantor. 1965. Mission with LeMay, Doubleday. Levin, Nora. 1977. While Messiah Tarried, Schocken. 

His father had been a failure, an odd-job drifter, forever moving his family around. The LeMays lived all over Ohio, in Pennsylvania, out in the wilds in Montana, in California. Curtis Emerson LeMay, bom in Co-... 

Nearer at hand Curtis LeMay could see the intensity and ferocity of Japanese resistance increasing as American forces fought their way toward the home islands. The latest hellhole was Iwo Jima—Sulfur Island—a mass of volcanic ash and rock only seven square miles in area with a dormant volcano at one end. Mount Suribachi, that had risen from the sea within historic times. Miasmic with sulfur fumes, a steam of rotten eggs, Iwo lacked fresh water but supported two airfields from which Japanese... 

Which had been the general formula in Europe, but according to Curtis LeMay the Japanese worked at home, as families ... 

Beginning in 1944, U.S. Air Force B-29 s systematically firebombed Japanese cities. L. to r.. Generals Lauris Norstad, Curtis LeMay and Thomas Power. 

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