Curtis LeMay

Curtis LeMay

Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was an American 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 subsequent 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 2,860,859 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Curtis LeMay is the 6,127th most popular politician (down from 5,979th in 2019), the 2,084th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,090th in 2019) and the 131st most popular American Politician.