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...differing with respected colleagues such as SAC Chief Curtis LeMay, who last spring warned that by 1960 the Soviet air force would be the world's mightiest, Twining was taking into account information that had not been available to LeMay: what he and his aides had seen, heard and sensed in Russia (TIME, July...
...reason for the $1.1 billion tradeoff between Air Force funds and foreign aid was that Air Force General Curtis LeMay, boss of the Strategic Air Command, had testified that the Russians will soon have a larger bomber force than the U.S. A more direct reason was that 1956 is an election year, and giving money to the Air Force is more attractive politically than handing it over to "foreigners...
While the Pentagon took to the headlines last week to air the latest and most basic power struggle among the armed forces, two leading U.S. airmen made headlines in their own right. One was General Curtis Emerson LeMay, the Air Force's Strategic Air Commander. The other was General Earle Partridge, the Air Force's Continental Air Defense Commander...
Said plain-talking Curt LeMay in testimony released by the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee, chaired by Missouri's Stuart Symington: if war came today "we would do very well" and "would probably win." But by 1959 the Russians will have twice as many long-range bombers as the U.S. and will be able to destroy the U.S. by surprise attack. What LeMay wants: the world's biggest strategic striking force...
...LeMay and Partridge are dedicated and intelligent officers. It is Curt LeMay's duty to fight for an absolutely unbeatable SAC, with hundreds of intercontinental bombers that can fly at twice the speed of sound at such altitude that the pilots can see the Milky Way at high noon. It is Pat Partridge's duty to strive for an absolutely impenetrable air defense screen (even if in so doing he seems to contradict LeMay's doctrine that there is no complete defense against bombers). But LeMay and Partridge are commanders with specific and therefore limited functions...