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Curtis LeMay

1906 - 1990

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Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was a US Air Force general who implemented an effective but controversial strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II. He later served as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, from 1961 to 1965. LeMay joined the United States Army Air Corps, the precursor to the United States Air Force, in 1929 while studying civil engineering at Ohio State University. He had risen to the rank of major by the time of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and the United States's entry into World War II. He commanded the 305th Bombardment Group from October 1942 until September 1943, and the 3rd Air Division in the European theatre of World War II until August 1944, when he was transferred to the China Burma India Theater. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Curtis LeMay has received more than 3,097,869 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Curtis LeMay is the 6,856th most popular politician (down from 6,112th in 2019), the 2,216th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,082nd in 2019) and the 148th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Curtis LeMay ranks 6,856 out of 19,576. Before him are Alexander Bortnikov, Rani Durgavati, Shigechiyo Izumi, Al-Mu'azzam Isa, Catalina de Erauso, and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Daniel arap Moi, Bogdan I of Moldavia, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, William of Montferrat, Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, and Kaliman I of Bulgaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Curtis LeMay ranks 99. Before him are Janet Gaynor, John Carradine, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Horst Schumann, George Sanders, and Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse. After him are Junio Valerio Borghese, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Heinrich Schwarz, Clifford Odets, Humberto Delgado, and Wolf Albach-Retty. Among people deceased in 1990, Curtis LeMay ranks 70. Before him are Samuel Noah Kramer, Lewis Mumford, Nicola Abbagnano, Samuel Doe, Dexter Gordon, and Edmund Conen. After him are Halston, Hussein Onn, Manuel Puig, Georgy Flyorov, Nina Kulagina, and Sergei Dovlatov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Curtis LeMay ranks 2,216 out of 20,380. Before him are William Le Baron Jenney (1832), Gloria Steinem (1934), Robert Sternberg (1949), Brenda Lee (1944), Ben Webster (1909), and Dennis Wilson (1944). After him are Kate Capshaw (1953), Patrick Duffy (1949), Howard Martin Temin (1934), Stockard Channing (1944), Lloyd Shapley (1923), and Jonathan Edwards (1703).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Curtis LeMay ranks 148. Before him are Mike Pompeo (1963), George Wallace (1919), Charles Curtis (1860), Ron Johnson (1955), Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921), and Maxwell D. Taylor (1901). After him are Robert Todd Lincoln (1843), John Conyers (1929), Kamehameha II (1797), Paul P. Harris (1868), Leland Stanford (1824), and Jerome Powell (1953).

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