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Revisi terkini sejak 27 Juni 2024 06.55
Curtis Emerson LeMay (15 November 1906 – 1 Oktober 1990) adalah seorang jenderal dalam Angkatan Udara Amerika Serikat dan calon wakil presiden dari kandidat Partai Independen Amerika George Wallace dalam pemilihan presiden 1968.
Curtis LeMay dikenal karena merancang dan mengimplementasikan kampanye pengeboman strategis sistematis, efektif namun juga kontroversial di teater Pasifik saat Perang Dunia II. Pada masa perang tersebut, ia dikenal karena merencanakan dan mengeksekusi kampanye pengeboman masif terhadap kota-kota di Jepang. Ia menjabat sebagai Ketua Staf Angkatan Udara AS dari 1961 sampai ia pensiun pada 1965.
Kehidupan awal
[sunting | sunting sumber]LeMay lahir di Columbus, Ohio, pada 15 November 1906. LeMay berdarah Prancis Kanada dan Inggris.[4]
Karier
[sunting | sunting sumber]Pada Agustus 1937, sebagai navigator di bawah pilot dan komandan Caleb V. Haynes pada Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, dia membantu menemukan kapal perang Utah meskipun diberi koordinat yang salah oleh personel Angkatan Laut, dalam latihan yang diadakan dalam kondisi berkabut di California, setelah itu kelompok B-17 membomnya dengan bom air.
Referensi
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- ^ "Curtis LeMay, 83, Bomber General of WW II, Dies". Los Angeles Times. staff writer. 2 Oktober 1990. Diakses tanggal 1 Maret 2014.
- ^ Narvaez, Alfonso A. (2 Oktober 1990). "Gen. Curtis LeMay, an Architect Of Strategic Air Power, Dies at 83". New York Times. Diakses tanggal 1 Maret 2014.
- ^ Kozak, Warren. The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay. Regnery Publishing, Inc. Diakses tanggal 2014-08-25.
Daftar pustaka
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Atkins, Albert Air Marshall Sir Arthur Harris and General Curtis E. Lemay: A Comparative Analytical Biography. AuthorHouse, 2001. ISBN 0-7596-5940-0.
- Craig, William The Fall of Japan. The Dial Press, 1967. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 67-10704.
- Coffey, Thomas M. Iron Eagle: The Turbulent Life of General Curtis LeMay. Random House, 1986. ISBN 0-517-55188-8.
- Kozak, Warren LeMay: The Life and Wars of Curtis LeMay. Regnery, 2009. plus Author Interview Diarsipkan 2013-05-11 di Wayback Machine. at the Pritzker Military Library on June 4, 2009
- LeMay, Curtis E. "Mission with LeMay: My Story". Doubleday, 1965
- LeMay, Curtis E., Yenne, Bill Superfortress: The Boeing B-29 and American Airpower in World War II. Westholme Publishing 2006, originally published by Berkley, 1988
- McNamara, Robert S. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. Vintage Press, 1995. ISBN 0-679-76749-5.
- Moscow, Warren "City’s Heart Gone". The New York Times. March 11, 1945: 1, 13.
- Narvez, Alfonso A. "Gen. Curtis LeMay, an Architect of Strategic Air Power, Dies at 83". The New York Times. October 2, 1990.
- Allison, Graham. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971 – updated 2nd edition, 1999). Longman. ISBN 0-321-01349-2.
- Rhodes, Richard Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. Simon & Schuster, 1995. ISBN 0-684-80400-X
- Tillman, Barrett. LeMay. Palgrave's Great Generals Series, 2007. ISBN 1-4039-7135-8
Historiografi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Crane, Conrad C. "LeMay, Curtis" in Charles Messenger, ed. Reader's Guide to Military History (Routledge, 2001), pp 324–5 online
- USAF National Museum, "Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, Awards and Decorations"
- USAF Service Record of Curtis LeMay, Military Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, MO.
- "Curtis E LeMay", 456 Fighter Interceptor Squadron, diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2011-07-24, diakses tanggal 2015-11-14.
Pranala luar
[sunting | sunting sumber]- "LeMay", Air Force Magazine, USA, March 1998, diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2008-02-13, diakses tanggal 2015-11-14.
- Meilinger, Colonel Phillip S, "LeMay", American Airpower Biography: A Survey of the Field, USAF, diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2004-10-09, diakses tanggal 2015-11-14.
- Rhodes, Richard, General Curtis LeMay, Head of Strategic Air Command, USA: PBS.
- Rhodes, Richard, LeMay's Vision of War, USA: PBS.
- Annotated bibliography of Curtis LeMay, Alsos Digital Library, diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2006-06-14, diakses tanggal 2021-02-12.
- "Gen. Curtis E. LeMay", National Museum, USAF.
- Nutter, Ralph H, With the Possum and the Eagle. A view of working with LeMay, by his lead navigator in Europe.
- (Inggris) "Curtis LeMay". Find a Grave. Diakses tanggal 2008-02-17.