[Grizzled Bear]

Curtis LeMay
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I studied some things about him for promotion testing. After I test I want to focus on him and a few others (William Tunner, Hap Arnold) a bit more.

Can you recommend any particular books?

[Lewite]

Reply to post #24
If you are not near a big city library or an Air Force Base Library, do a google search. There are a lot of articles on line I am sure. Most of what the Air Force did in the Pacific 1944 and 1945 was under LeMay's direction. After the war he built the Strategic Air Command into a juggernaut.

[DuncanWaring]

Curtis LeMay - you could start with his autobiography - Mission with LeMay: My Story.

No, you can't have my copy.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

If you want a long book that has a much wider compass than Lemay alone, read Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." Lemay plays a major role, of course, at the end. It's a fascintating story about people, physics, spies, politics, war strategy, tactics, engineering, Japanese and German nuclear programs, antisemitism in Germany, etc. I could go on, but you get the idea of the scope of the book. Highly recommended if you want to see where Lemay fit in the big picture.