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General Curtis E. LeMay (Air Force Chief of Staff), K3JUY
...building a bomber fleet; despite the show, they were concentrating on the production of missiles, and they pulled ahead of the U.S. This time, the Air Force is convinced that Russia really is building new planes. Significantly, the Air Force's new Chief of Staff is Gen. Curtis LeMay, an old bomber pilot who still has great faith in manned aircraft...
...White House, the Air Force's outgoing Chief of Staff, General Thomas D. White, 59, was greeted by some incoming hardware: a massive trophy established in his name to honor aerospace achievement. Besides delivering a retirement tribute to 41-year Veteran White (his successor: General Curtis E. LeMay), President Kennedy inspected the bronze statue of a mesomorphic figure hurling a rocket with one hand and snagging a nose cone with the other, quipped sadly: "He looks like he has a strong back...
Your story "A Matter of Morale" [June 16] was amusing, interesting and factual-and you shouldn't ought to have done it. Curt LeMay doesn't like us anyway, and now that he knows that we live almost as well as the demigods of the Strategic Air Command, there will be hell...
Breaking the Dishes? Four years ago-after a nearly ten-year command-LeMay left SAC, moved into the Pentagon as Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. There was a lot of conjecture about the move. LeMay, it was agreed, was a superb field commander. But within the confines of the Pentagon, he would surely break up a lot of policy dishes...