Word: norstad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bosses had got hold of something new and good: large-scale night fire-bombing of Japan's cities. The top planning had been done in Washington under Brigadier General Lauris O. ("Swede") Norstad, chief of staff of the worldwide Twentieth Air Force. Then the details were left to Major General Curtis E. ("Old Ironpants") LeMay, who had the field command and with it, the tactical responsibility, as head of the 21st Bomber Command in the Marianas...
China-based B295 did their best job of precision bombing on an aircraft factory at Okayama, Formosa. Lanky, blond Brigadier General Lauris Norstad, Twentieth Air Force Chief of Staff, judged this job better than any he had seen in Europe: 35 or 36 buildings that comprised this factory "just aren't there any more...