[Alas Babylon!]

Curtis LeMay’s job was getting OUR bombers to the Soviet Union, not keeping their’s out.

He was CINC SAC, not ADCOM. By the time he became CINC USAF, the Soviets were doing missiles and let bombers take a back seat.

Richard Rhodes doesn’t know jack about the USAF or its history.

I did 5 years in ADCOM, and 3 in SAC (among many others)—totally different missions.

[hinckley buzzard]

That makes sense. LeMay was the one after all who designed the “formations” of bomber groups used over Europe, designed to create mutual defense capability with the fifty cals, before there was long range fighter support.

[higgmeister]

That is what I thought too, when I read that, but I didn't have the gravitas to reply.   I was just six years in the AFCC.