Gen Curtis Emerson LeMay: father of Strategic Air Command.

Born in Ohio in 1906, Curtis LeMay saw his first airplane in flight at the age of four or five and became so excited that he tried to run after it. After graduating from Ohio State University, he entered the service as a flying cadet, earned his wings at Kelly Field, Texas, and received his commission as a second lieutenant in October 1929. Through 1937 he served in various pursuit/fighter assignments, transferring that year to bomber aircraft. In 1938 he led the first mass B-17 flight to South America, an aerial feat that won the Mackay Trophy for the 2d Bomb Group. Prior to 7 December 1941, he pioneered air routes over the North Atlantic to England and over the South Atlantic …