Curtis LeMay

Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906–October 1, 1990) was a General in the United States Air Force. He is credited with creating an effective systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific Theatre of World War II and later reorganizing the Strategic Air Command as a military arm for conducting nuclear war. However, he was also characterized by his opponents (who referred to him as "Bombs Away Lemay") as a belligerent warmonger whose aggressiveness threatened to enflame tense international political situations like the Cuban Missile Crisis into war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Works

Books

• (with MacKinlay Kantor) Mission with LeMay: My Story (Doubleday, 1965) ISBN B00005WGR2
• (with Dale O. Smith) America is in Danger (Funk & Wagnalls, 1968) ISBN B00005VCVX
• (with Bill Yenne) Superfortress: The Story of the B-29 and American Air Power (McGraw-Hill, 1988) ISBN 0070371601

Film

As Himself

• The Last Bomb (Documentary, 1945)
• In the Year of the Pig (Documentary, 1968)
• The World at War (Documentary TV Series, 1974)
• Race for the Superbomb (Documentary, 1999)
• JFK (Movie, 1991)
• Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Documentary, 2001)
• (Documentary, 2003)
• DC3:ans sista resa (Documentary, 2004)

As Based on Him

• (character of General Buck Turgidson, played by actor George C. Scott) (Movie, 1964)
• Thirteen Days (character of General LeMay, played by actor Kevin Conway) (Movie, 2003)