By Barrett Tillman
ISBN-10: 0230602045
ISBN-13: 9780230602045
ISBN-10: 1403971358
ISBN-13: 9781403971357
LeMay was once a terrifying, advanced, and magnificent normal. In global conflict II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and used to be accountable while Atomic bombs have been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was once accountable for tens of millions of civilian deaths--a truth he loved to have a good time by way of smoking Cuban cigars. yet LeMay used to be additionally the guy who single-handedly reworked the yank air strength from a ramshackle group of poorly expert and badly outfitted pilots into one of many fiercest and best guns of the battle. over the past many years, such a lot U.S. army missions have been performed fullyyt during the employment of the Air strength; this can be LeMay's legacy. filled with breathtaking battles within the air and encouraging management strategies at the floor, LeMay will preserve readers on their fringe of their seats.
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LeMay could not resist a look at the ground war before leaving Europe. ”20 The two generals landed at an advanced airfield in France and encountered Brigadier General James W. McCauley, commanding a Ninth Air Force wing. The trio—with five stars among them—took a command car toward the front lines. Kepner insisted on looking beyond each rise, and soon the fliers were well forward; they saw dead Germans and heard shellfire. LeMay knew something of Kepner’s exceptional background—he had been a marine before World War I and led an army battalion in 1918—but the flying generals were unescorted and unarmed.
They ranged from inadequate fuel supplies—seven ferry flights across the Himalayas were necessary for one combat sortie—to inadequate maps. LeMay learned from one of his group commanders that 44 LEMAY available maps were almost useless: Some had no height information and others were just plain wrong. ” Though he seldom said so at the time, LeMay had serious doubts about the viability of sustaining B-29 operations in China. As an enormously complex weapon system (some 55,000 parts) the Superfortress placed unprecedented demands upon maintenance and logistics.
LeMay knew better. Even with experienced bombardiers like John B. Montgomery (of the 1938 Rex intercept) and Doug Kilpatrick (of the 1937 USS Utah bombings), accuracy evaporated on such a short attack heading. There simply was not enough time to align the target in the sight for optimum accuracy. Consequently, LeMay laid down the law: no evasive maneuvers from the initial reference point to “bombs away” when the ordnance was released. Contrary to contemporary doctrine, the 305th was going to fly straight and level, giving its bombardiers the best possible shot at the target.
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