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General Curtis Emerson LeMay
"Father of the Strategic Air Command"
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General
Billy Mitchell
Early advocate of Air Power, who was drummed out of the Army Air
Corps because he refused to accept it's negligence. At his
court martial, he predicted the attack on Pearl Harbor. It
occurred after he died. A grateful congress awarded him the
Medal of Honor and the Air Corps named the the new B-25 bomber after
him. It was the only U.S. airplane ever named after a person. |
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General
"Hap" Arnold
Produced the enormous B-29 bomber and organized its use against the
Japanese islands. It later became SAC's first bomber. |
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General
Thomas Powers
One of Lemay's wing commanders in the Japanese theater, he later
supervised the Atomic tests. Replaced Lemay as SAC's
commander. He introduced the alert system, the ICBM missiles,
the strategic wings and the dreaded Organizational Readiness
Inspections. Great Guy! |
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Lt.
General Bernard A. Schriever
Father of the U. S. Air Force missile program. Simultaneous
developed Atlas, Thor, Jupiter and Titan and later the Minuteman..
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