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  2. Curtis LeMay - Wikipedia

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    Lieutenant Curtis LeMay in 1929. LeMay was born in Columbus, Ohio, on November 15, 1906.LeMay was of English and distant French Huguenot heritage. [3] His father, Erving Edwin LeMay, was at times an ironworker and general handyman, but he never held a job longer than a few months.

  3. Dr. Strangelove - Wikipedia

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    United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, orders his executive officer, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (an exchange officer from the Royal Air Force), to put the base on alert (condition red, the most intense lockdown status), confiscate all privately owned radios from base personnel and issue "Wing Attack Plan R" to the planes of the ...

  4. Elwood Richard Quesada - Wikipedia

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    Strategic airpower advocates such as General Curtis LeMay gained a lock on the budget for the Air Force in the post-World War II years, and the Air Force's tactical air warfare ability suffered. Quesada thus asked for reassignment and was given a dead-end job by Vandenberg as head of a committee to find ways to combine the Air Force Reserves ...

  5. 134 funny quotes that will literally make you laugh out loud

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    These are the best funny quotes to make you laugh about life, aging, family, work, and even nature. Enjoy quips from comedy greats like Bob Hope, Robin Williams, and more. 134 funny quotes that ...

  6. Here are some of Ohio State's most famous alumni, from ... - AOL

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    Ohio State University has produced its share of famous graduates in 154 years. Some are famous for their contributions to American history.

  7. The 10 best and funniest tweets of the week - AOL

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    This week was especially great for funny tweets. So I hope you get a good laugh out of it. Here they are, the 10 funniest tweets of the week. 1. This is a good pitch, to be honest...

  8. Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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    In the documentary The Fog of War, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara recalls General Curtis LeMay, who relayed the Presidential order to drop nuclear bombs on Japan, [135] said: "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals." And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

  9. XXI Bomber Command - Wikipedia

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    It lasted for two hours. The raid was a success beyond General LeMay's wildest expectations. The individual fires caused by the bombs joined to create a general conflagration, which would have been classified as a firestorm but for prevailing winds gusting at 17 to 28 mph (27 to 45 km/h). [5]