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...21st Bomber Command, whose B-29 Superfortresses fly from Saipan fields, had already moved its headquarters to Guam. The 21st had far outgrown its elder brother, the 20th, based in India and China, and burly, black-jowled Curtis E. LeMay (at 38 the Army's youngest major general) had flown from Chengtu to Guam to take over. Haywood S. ("Possum") Hansell, a specialist in planning, was recalled to Washington...
...boss its most important new pioneering job in air combat today, the U.S. Army Air Forces last week picked one of its youngest, yeastiest generals. Burly Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay, 37, crack Flying Fortressman, was detached from the European Theater and ordered to China to take command of the A.A.F...
...Curtis LeMay had seen plenty of combat over Germany, but it was not entirely for bravery that he was picked for the new job. Almost from the day he entered the Air Corps as a flying cadet in 1928, Airman LeMay had been a bug on precise maintenance of military aircraft, had been equally pernickety about how they were flown...
Because they have a lot of tricks, they also call for a whole set of new tactics. Many an airforceman was ready to bet this week that General LeMay would write that book, too, just as he had developed a dazzling set of new formations for Flying Fortresses...
...China as in England, General LeMay will be insistent on hard precise work by pilots and mechanics, will set men back coldly and impersonally if they fail. In an attack on Germany months ago, LeMay's ball-turret gunner called him on the inter phone to announce that his guns (which should have been readied on the ground) would not fire. Replied Pilot LeMay coolly from up front: "You're going to look pretty silly when the 1905 start coming...