Major General Curtis E. LeMay and staff watches movies in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force ( USAAF ) Major General and Commander of 21st Bomber Command Curtis E. LeMay with staff watches movies. A screen in the background. LeMay smokes a cigarette as he talks to a staff personnel. The screen shows USAAF B-29 Superfortresses taking off to bomb Japan. Palm trees in the foreground. A pilot and a copilot in a cockpit. They operate controls. Bombings over target. Explosions and smoke over the targets. Staff personnel look at a map.
U.S. Air force officers and NCOs attend a briefing session at SAC Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. Commander of SAC (Strategic Air Command), General Curtis LeMay, addresses the group. General LeMay is standing near a large wall map.
Platt-LePage Aircraft Company of Eddystone, Pennsylvania. A boy poses by a cockpit mockup of the XR-1 helicopter. Pilot Lou Leavitt sits in the mockup with his arm around the boy. The boy poses with four employees of the Platt-LePage Aircraft Company. Scene shifts to flight testing of the U.S. Army Air Corps XR-1 helicopter, which moves about in a variety of maneuvers, demonstrating considerable stability and control, although confined to a relatively low altitude of approximately fifty feet.
United States Air Force Colonel speaks over microphone at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland. He introduces General LeMay. General LeMay steps up to rostrum in front of microphone and gives a brief speech.
General LeMay, Arthur Godfrey and Mr Talbott sign papers in an office at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland. General LeMay, and Arthur Godfrey seated. They look at a map on the table.
U.S. Air Forces General Curtis LeMay retires from service in United States. Officials gather in a hall at the retirement. U.S. President Lyndon Johnson at podium, addresses people and states about the achievements of the General. He awards the Distinguished Service Medal to the General. General LeMay receives the award and shakes hands with the President. He meets his family members and other officials present in the hall. People gather at the retirement ceremony for the General. Troops march in respect of the General and Army Air Forces planes flies in formation.
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