Curtis LeMay AKA Curtis Emerson LeMay Born: 15-Nov-1906 Birthplace: Columbus, OH Died: 1-Oct-1990 Location of death: Riverside, CA Cause of death: Heart Attack Remains: Buried, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Military Nationality: United States Executive summary: USAF General Military service: USAF (1928-65) Father: Erving LeMay Mother: Arizona Dove Carpenter Wife: Helen Estelle Maitland (m. 9-Jun-1934, d. 1994, 1 child) Daughter: Patricia Jane LeMay Lodge
High School: South High School, Columbus, OH University: BS Civil Engineering, Ohio State University (1932)
US Air Force Chief of Staff (1961-65) US Defense Department Vice Chief of Staff, USAF (1957-61) US Defense Department Commander, Strategic Air Command (1948-57) RAND Corporation Alfalfa Club 1957 Air Medal with 3 oak leaf clusters Croix de Guerre Distinguished Flying Cross with 2 oak leaf clusters Distinguished Service Cross Distinguished Service Medal with 2 oak leaf clusters French Legion of Honor National Defense Service Medal Silver Star Order of the Rising Sun 7-Dec-1964 (nuclear holocaust-in-cheek) Heart Attack Dec-1961 English Ancestry Maternal
French-Canadian Ancestry Paternal
Risk Factors: Bell's Palsy, Smoking
Author of books:
Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965, memoir)
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