05298cpcaa2200793 i 4500 5809566 20250607224948.2 820702|||||||||||| eng 5809566 7 cbc orignew u ncip 19 y-manuscri mm 82029918 MSS29918 : Manuscript Division collection ID lcmd (DLC)mm 82029918 DLC eng dacs DLC DLC I lcmd 0514Q Oversize 0114R Oversize 6:5 Vault 0202B LeMay, Curtis E. Curtis E. LeMay papers, 1918-1969 (bulk 1943-1969). 131,550 items. 243 containers plus 14 classified and 4 oversize. 90 linear feet. Arranged in ten series. Series 1: Special Personal Correspondence, 1935-1964; Series 2: Command Assignment Papers, 1918-1965; Series 3: Miscellany, 1918-1965; Series 4: Campaign Papers, 1968-1969; Series 5: Classified, 1947-1964; Series 6: Top Secret, 1948-1964; Series 7: Restricted Data (Classified), 1948-1964; Series 8: Restricted Data (Top Secret), 1948-1964; Series 9: North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1954; and Series 10: Oversize, 1951-1952. Open to research. Classified, in part. 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. Gift and deposit converted to gift, Curtis E. LeMay, 1965-1969. Motion picture films, tape recording, soundscriber recordings, and phonograph recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Some maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Some photographs and other pictorial material transferred to 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. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms014063 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. Air Force officers. itoamc Army officers. itoamc Aviators. itoamc Visual materials from the Curtis E. LeMay papers (DLC)2010650965 Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms014063 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms014063.3 MSS. mss/ead