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Indispensable Man. Thus, the most spectacularly successful airman produced in the Army's Pacific war was no longer his own on-the-spot boss. Some of LeMay's devoted associates in the Twentieth did not take kindly to the change, just as they instinctively resented him when he replaced the first commander of the B-29s in the Marianas-friendly, brown-eyed Brigadier General Haywood S. ("Possum...
Hansell. But there were good reasons for LeMay's new orders...
Imposing as the B-29 forces under Curt LeMay had become, it was only a part of the power to be turned against Japan in a vast offensive that even more conservative airmen hoped would knock the enemy out of the war before...
Spaatz already had his team - Doolittle and Twining - who had done the job for him in the European theater. He also had in Curt LeMay a brilliant tactical commander; LeMay's know-how in Pacific battle and B-29 operations had to be spread through the enlarged strategic air forces. So while LeMay's officers grumbled a bit at a good man and a crack leader being taken from tactical command, their black-browed boss was moved...
Whether he liked it or not - and from dead-pan LeMay there was no sign - he had become a staff officer. One consolation was that at 38, LeMay, already the youngest major general in the U.S. Army in World War II, probably could look for ward to getting his third star. He is younger than any of his young wing commanders...