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...talk to Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, Contributing Editor Peter Bird Martin flew from New York to Buenos Aires, asked to fly home with LeMay aboard his record-setting KC-135 jet tanker. LeMay agreed to take him only if wind and temperature would permit his heavily loaded jet to leave Ezeiza Airport's short runway safely with Martin's extra weight (187 Ibs.) aboard. He ordered Martin to report back to the plane at 5:30 next morning. In a cool dawn, Martin discovered conditions were favorable, climbed aboard, was able to radio TIME...
State's LeMay turned out to be a powerful combination. Today, when White spends most of his time in Joint Chiefs planning and budget sessions, it is Curt LeMay who is often operating head of the Air Force -and, good soldier that he is, he operates in White...
Global Bombers Important, Lemay Asserts...
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 12--General Curtis Lemay gave a dramatic punch today to his claim that the global bomber has not been scrapped by the guided missile. He helped fly a big jet Stratotanker 6,350 miles without stopping or refueling...
...soon as missiles are ready they will augment our bombers and at some later date they probably will replace part of our bombers," Lemay told reporters...