Curtis E. LeMay

(1906-1990) lived at Bellevue, Sarpy County. Military officer, airman, considered pioneer of nation's strategic military air power during World War II and the subsequent Cold War, organized operations of successful Berlin Airlift; as commander of Strategic Air Command at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska from 1948 to 1957 he created an air force that served as a deterrent to a major war, became chief of staff of U.S. Air Force from 1961 to 1965, achieved rank of four-star general, appeared on cover of Time, September 4, 1950. Consult Current Biography (1954) 403-405 and Nebraska on the March, September 1956, pp. 2-3 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, January 24, 1965, pp. 6-7, 9 and New York Times obituary, October 2, 1990, p. B-6 and American National Biography, Vol 13 (1999) 468-469.

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