Tolong jelaskan mengenai Kehidupan awal dari Curtis LeMay

LeMay lahir di Columbus, Ohio, pada 15 November 1906. LeMay berdarah Prancis Kanada dan Inggris.

Pada Agustus 1937, sebagai navigator di bawah pilot dan komandan Caleb V. Haynes pada Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, dia membantu menemukan kapal perang Utah meskipun diberi koordinat yang salah oleh personel Angkatan Laut, dalam latihan yang diadakan dalam kondisi berkabut di California, setelah itu kelompok B-17 membomnya dengan bom air.

Atkins, Albert Air Marshall Sir Arthur Harris and General Curtis E. Lemay: A Comparative Analytical Biography. AuthorHouse, 2001. ISBN 0-7596-5940-0.

Craig, William The Fall of Japan. The Dial Press, 1967. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 67-10704.

Coffey, Thomas M. Iron Eagle: The Turbulent Life of General Curtis LeMay. Random House, 1986. ISBN 0-517-55188-8.

Kozak, Warren LeMay: The Life and Wars of Curtis LeMay. Regnery, 2009. plus Author Interview  at the Pritzker Military Library on June 4, 2009

LeMay, Curtis E. "Mission with LeMay: My Story". Doubleday, 1965

LeMay, Curtis E., Yenne, Bill Superfortress: The Boeing B-29 and American Airpower in World War II. Westholme Publishing 2006, originally published by Berkley, 1988

McNamara, Robert S. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. Vintage Press, 1995. ISBN 0-679-76749-5.

Moscow, Warren "City’s Heart Gone". The New York Times. March 11, 1945: 1, 13.

Narvez, Alfonso A. "Gen. Curtis LeMay, an Architect of Strategic Air Power, Dies at 83". The New York Times. October 2, 1990.

Allison, Graham. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971 – updated 2nd edition, 1999). Longman. ISBN 0-321-01349-2.

Rhodes, Richard Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. Simon & Schuster, 1995. ISBN 0-684-80400-X

Tillman, Barrett. LeMay. Palgrave's Great Generals Series, 2007. ISBN 1-4039-7135-8