Curtis LeMay was a US Air Force general who was credited during World War II with developing the strategic bombing campaign against the Japanese that greatly helped in the conclusion of the war. He was also credited with reorganizing the Strategic Air Command into an effective force that became capable of waging a nuclear war against the Soviet ...
He was responsible for the controversial firebombing of Japanese cities in World War II.
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Called the Cuban Missile Crisis the worst defeat the United States had suffered in its entire history. The Kennedy administration secretly agreed to remove US missiles from Italy and Turkey in exchange for the Soviets removing their missiles from Cuba.
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