LeMay, Curtis E. collectionmanuscriptmixed material eng Correspondence, diaries, speeches, teletype messages, flight orders, mission reports, strategic plans and operation reports, appointment calendars, commissions, certificates, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers primarily concerning LeMay's career as an aviator and officer in the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force. Documents his service in the U.S. Army Air Corps, commands in the European and China-Burma-India theaters during World War II, and supervision of strategic air operations against Japan involving saturation bombing of Japanese cities. Also documents his assignment as special deputy to the Air Matériel Command, U.S. Army Air Forces; deputy chief of air staff for research and development, Washington, D.C.; commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe including his role in the Berlin Airlift of 1948; head of the Strategic Air Command, U.S. Air Force, 1948-1957; and chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, 1961-1965. Subjects include his advocacy of increased defense spending, promotion of aggressive nuclear strategy, and clash with the John F. Kennedy presidential administration over the Cuban missile crisis. Also includes material pertaining to his 1968 campaign as the vice presidential candidate on the American Independent Party ticket led by Alabama Governor George C. Wallace. Curtis E. LeMay, Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Aviator and U.S. Army and Air Force officer. Full name: Curtis Emerson LeMay. Born, 1906. Died, 1990. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998. United States. Air Force. United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command. United States. Army. United States. Army. Air Corps. United States. Army Air Forces. Air Matériel Command. American Independent Party. Aeronautics, Military--United States. Aeronautics, Military--Research--United States. Bombing, Aerial--Japan. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Nuclear weapons--United States. Strategic forces--United States. Vice-Presidents--United States--Election--1968. World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations. World War, 1939-1945--Burma. World War, 1939-1945--China. World War, 1939-1945--India. World War, 1939-1945--Japan. World War, 1939-1945--United States. Berlin (Germany)--History--Blockade, 1948-1949. United States--Defenses. United States--Foreign relations--1961-1963. United States--Military policy. United States--Politics and government--1963-1969. Visual materials from the Curtis E. LeMay papers http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms014063 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms014063.3 Open to research. Classified, in part.