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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After an Ohio boyhood (his father was an ironworker in Columbus) LeMay went to Ohio State University, was near to graduating when he quit to be a flying cadet in the Army. In due course he became a fighter pilot (later as an Army officer he went back to Ohio, got his degree). Once, when he was stationed at Self ridge Field, Mich., he almost quit the Air Corps to fly trimotored planes for Henry Ford. But he stuck and studied, and by 1937 he was recognized as one of the Corps's ablest celestial navigators. This...
...Miss Helen Feldman, a Chicago secretary, he wrote: "I wired a bunch of these fanatics in New York, and told them if these Communists and fanatical groups did not quit trying to pass such damphool legislation . . . that eventually the great mass of American people would revolt and figuratively liquidate every member of their groups...
...really wound up when he replied to Leonard E. Golditch of New York, secretary of the National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism. Cried "The Man": "If Jews of your type don't quit sponsoring and fraternizing with the negro race you are going to arouse so much opposition to all of you that they will get a very strong invitation to pack up and resettle in Palestine. . . . There are just a few of you New York Jew 'kikes' . . . socializing with the negroes for selfish and political reasons. . . . You had better stop and think...
...Much Longer? No less a personage than China's Premier T. V. Soong, returning to Chungking from Moscow, predicted that the Japs would quit this year or in early 1946. On the other hand, rumors of imminent peace which gushed from various world capitals caused top side Army and Navy figures to repeat their warnings that the war would probably run until...
Major General Claire Lee Chennault, 54, genius of U.S. air power in China, quit his job last week. In Kunming he announced that he had resigned as commander of the Fourteenth U.S. Army Air Force. He said he planned to retire from the Army and return...