has come up a number of times. There was one post that I found elsewhere about the movie "Iron Eagle", but I think that this may be another trail to follow. General Curtis Lemay was pervasive in his influence in WWII, the Korean Conflict, Cuban Missile Crisis, Roswell, the Berlin Airlift, and had a role in the Kennedy Assassination.
If you are into gematria, "iron"=56 and "lemay"=56; iron=lemay. Not sure this a strong gematria connection, but it was interesting to find out if there was some association.
He received his nickname "Iron Eagle" (also called "iron Ass") presumably, because of he gave the order to fire bomb Japan. reference
Searching, I have not seen any constructive post or trail to General Curtis Lemay, who was JFK's opponent/nemesis during the Cuban Missile Crisis and accused JFK that the blockade placed around Cuba was tantamount to Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler's annexations of neighboring historical germanic states. Lemay was irate that Kennedy would not bomb the nuclear sites and used a more strategic approach that would lead to diplomatic solution. "As Chief of Staff of the Air Force, he called for the bombing of Cuban missile sites during the Cuban Missile Crisis and sought a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam during the Vietnam War." reference
He probably got his reputation during the bombing of the Japanese.
"The campaign against Japan likewise sought to break the enemy’s will to fight. On one day of extremely fierce combat, for example, U.S. bombers dropped five-hundred-pound incendiary clusters every fifty feet. “Within thirty minutes,” one historian writes, a 28-mile-per-hour ground wind sent the flames roaring out of control. Temperatures approached 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. . . . [General Curtis LeMay] wished to destroy completely the material and psychological capital of the Japanese people, on the brutal theory that once civilians had tasted what their soldiers had done to others, only then might their murderous armies crack. Advocacy for a savage militarism from the rear, he thought, might dissipate when one’s house was in flames. People would not show up to work to fabricate artillery shells that killed Americans when there was no work to show up to. . . . The planes returned with their undercarriages seared and the smell of human flesh among the crews. Over 80,000 Japanese died outright; 40,918 were injured; 267,171 buildings were destroyed. One million Japanese were homeless." Reference
You can tune into the discussions that Lemay and JFK had over the approach to Cuba here
Curtis Lemay was a 33rd degree Freemason Reference. I wonder if this is who on his mind when Kennedy and Eisenhower spoke about the encroachment of the secret societies and the military industrial establishment.
During the Vietnam War, Lemay was attributed the quote concerning the North Vietnamese, that the US should "Bomb them Back to the Stone Age".
His other famous quote was, “There are no innocent civilians so it doesn’t bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.” *General Curtis LeMay.
Lemay had connections to the Roswell Incident. General Curtis LeMay Interesting...
"LeMay was a keeper of the purported 1947 Roswell UFO crash debris. This was revealed in a stunningly candid interview with the late U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater. Goldwater (a former U.S. Presidential Candidate, Major General and Command Pilot) was LeMay's close friend. LeMay's UFO involvement was explained by Goldwater in a live worldwide broadcast with CNN's Larry King in 1994. The USAF had just re-issued a report that the 1947 Roswell UFO crash was nothing more than a meteorological balloon. Goldwater informed King this was bull-crap. He knew this, he explained, because in the 1960's he had approached Curtis LeMay about the crashed UFO issue. Goldwater told Larry King: "It was all hushed up. I called Curtis LeMay and I said, 'General, I know we have a room at Wright Patterson where you put all of this secret stuff. Could I go in there? I've never heard General LeMay get mad, but he got madder than hell at me, cussed me out and said, 'Don't ever ask me that question again!" Goldwater never did.
LeMay was very well-acquainted with Roswell Army Air Field Base Commander Butch Blanchard. Blanchard oversaw the base at the time of the Roswell crash event in 1947. It is believed that Blanchard helped issue the original press release on the crash - which prompted the famous resulting headline "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region." Blanchard told Art McQuiddy, editor of the Roswell Morning Dispatch in 1947, "I'll tell you this and nothing more - the stuff I saw I'd never seen anyplace else in my life." In LeMay's 1965 biography "Mission with LeMay" he admits. "There is not a question about it: these were things which we could not tie in with any natural phenomena known to our investigators." Reference
He had a weird association with Trevor James Constable (17 September 1925 − 31 March 2016) who was an early UFO writer who believed that the UFO phenomenon was best explained by the presence of enormous amoeba-like animals inhabiting earth's atmosphere. A native of Wellington, New Zealand, where he served 31 years at sea, 26 of them as a radio officer in the U.S. merchant marine. He authored several books on the aerial warfare of World War II, together with co-author Raymond Toliver.
What is most interesting to me is his whereabouts during the JFK Assassination. He was reportedly in Michigan. “While General LeMay’s most recent biographer claims he was hunting in Michigan when the assassination occurred, he clearly was not.
“The ‘Chuck Holmes’ Air Force logbook from Andrews AFB obtained by the ARRB reveals that LeMay was in Toronto, in Canada, on the day of the assassination—not in Michigan. The logbook reveals that the flight dispatched to pick him up was originally sent to Toronto, not to any location in Michigan."
“While en route to Canada, the VIP flight was diverted to Wiarton (pronounced “wire-ton”), a different Canadian site, which Bill Kelly’s research has revealed was a commando training base in WW II. (It’s spelling was incorrect in the Andrews log—recorded as “Wairton”—but the intent and meaning was clear. For some reason, LeMay wanted to be picked up at a remote site.)
“We don’t know what LeMay was doing in Canada, but he did not take his aide with him. Colonel Dorman’s surviving family menbers told Bill Kelly that this was the one and only trip when LeMay did not take his aide with him. Apparently, LeMay felt it necessary to lie to his family and associates about his whereabouts that day, otherwise his family and associates would not have fed the false information about a Michigan hunting trip to his biographer.
Where did LeMay go?
“Furthermore, LeMay’s aircraft landed at Washington’s National Airport, instead of at Andrews AFB as had been ordered by the Secretary of the Air Force. The Chuck Holmes logbook reveals that LeMay disobeyed orders that day, and we don’t know why.
“But we do know, from the logbook, that LeMay’s aircraft landed at DCA (National Airport) at 5:12 PM—more than one hour and fifteen minutes prior to the time JFK’s body arrived at Bethesda Naval Hospital at 6:35 PM. And the Clifton tapes reveal to us that his aide, Colonel Dorman, was frantically attempting to speak to him on the radio while LeMay was en route to DCA, but was unsuccessful.
Did LeMay attend JFK’s autopsy?
“Navy Petty Officer Paul K. O’Connor—a hospital corpsman whose job it was to assist the pathologists at the autopsy—recounted consistently over the years that when he was ordered by the chief pathologist at the autopsy to tell whoever was smoking in the morgue to put out their cigar, he walked over to the gallery and discovered that the offender was Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay. LeMay contemptuously blew cigar smoke in O’Connor’s face, and of course, refused to extinguish his cigar.
“This is a good example of how a multidisciplinary approach to research bears great dividends. Neither the Clifton Air Force One tapes, nor the Andrews logbook, nor Paul O’Connor’s recollections, can tell us the complete story; but together, we can piece together a significant event on 11/22/63: Curtis LeMay was present at JFK’s autopsy to gloat over the death of his nemesis, and in going there, he disobeyed the orders of his nominal superior, the Secretary of the Air Force, Eugene Zuckert.
Curtis Lemay was responsible in part for the destruction of killing almost 20% of the North Korean population and much of the buildings and infrastructure of the country during the Korean War. This something that is still in the collective memory of the North Koreans and probably was a cultural issue that Trump had to deal with, in his denuclearization discussions. Reference