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- DIED. Curtis LeMay, 83, gruff pioneer of strategic bombing
- in World War II and Air Force chief of staff from 1961 to 1965;
- in Moreno Valley, Calif. General LeMay personally led five
- major bombing raids over Nazi Germany. He planned the March
- 9-10, 1945, incendiary night bombing of Tokyo, which created
- an immense fire storm that killed at least 90,000. During the
- Vietnam War, LeMay urged that the North Vietnamese be warned
- to stop their aggression against South Vietnam "or we're going
- to bomb them back into the Stone Age." That tough talk led
- Alabama Governor George Wallace to select LeMay as his
- vice-presidential running mate in 1968.
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