LeMay (Great Generals) by Barrett Tillman

By Barrett Tillman

LeMay was once a terrifying, complicated, and very good normal. In global conflict II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and used to be responsible while Atomic bombs have been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was once liable for tens of millions of civilian deaths--a truth he loved to have fun through smoking Cuban cigars. yet LeMay used to be additionally the guy who single-handedly remodeled the yankee air strength from a ramshackle staff of poorly educated and badly built pilots into one of many fiercest and most productive guns of the conflict. over the past many years, so much U.S. army missions have been conducted fullyyt throughout the employment of the Air strength; this can be LeMay's legacy. choked with breathtaking battles within the air and encouraging management strategies at the flooring, LeMay will hold readers on their fringe of their seats.

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Where other commanders berated men as slackers or cowards, “Colonel Iron Ass” transferred them to nonflying duty for awhile. One bomber pilot returned with dead crewmen on three consecutive missions and refused to chauffeur other men to their doom. Offered a transfer to a single-seat fighter, the B-17 man leapt at the chance and, given a P-47, shot down four Germans. LeMay also left his stamp on men with whom he had nothing in common philosophically. After the war, one of his navigators became a liberal activist, a civil liberties lawyer who rose to prominence as an activist judge.

Built “smack in the middle of the Bonneville Salt Flats,” Wendover was one of the most remote, desolate army facilities in the zone of the interior, 130 miles from Salt Lake. 1 Eventually LeMay and some other officers established themselves in the State Line Hotel, which straddled the Utah-Nevada border. The LeMay family settled in, and Janie promptly charmed the hotel staff into providing her with candy and Cokes while her father tried to season the half-trained, uncomprehending rookies assigned to the 306th.

But while there was no escaping flak, LeMay thought he had a partial solution. The old artilleryman dug into his ROTC manuals and consulted firing tables for the French 75mm weapon—not as effective as the German 88 but close enough for comparison. 9 Those were long odds but clearly they favored the target aircraft. The acid test came over St. Nazaire on November 23. The mission was flown by portions of five groups, most of which launched barely half of the scheduled aircraft. Still, losses were heavy.

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