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LeMay, Korea, and the ICBMs

2 Overview  General Curtis LeMay  Korean Conflict US InterventionUS Intervention Air Power Air Power Results Results  ICBMs Development Development Cuban Missile Crisis Cuban Missile Crisis

3 “I don’t mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it’s the tough guys who lead the survivors.” Colonel Curtis E. LeMay, USA: to Lieutenant General Ira Eaker in England in 1943

4 General Curtis LeMay  Navigator on B-17 as Lt in early airpower demonstration with ocean liner “Rex” in 1938  Commanded units in Berlin Airlift  Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command (CINCSAC)  Air Force Chief of Staff

5 LeMay’s Impact on the Air Force  More realistic training programs  Bottom line - Discipline  Procured personnel and aircraft  Bombers became airborne nuclear alert  Nuclear deterrence became a reality

6 VIDEO

7 Korean Conflict  National Security Council (NSC) directive 68 called for massive increase in defense spending to contain Communism  Korea was the first test of American resolve

8 Beginning of Korean Conflict  25 June 1950 North Korea launches a surprise attack invading South Korea  Congress approved use of force to repel North Korean invasion (no formal declaration of war)  UN Security Council authorizes aid (Gen Douglas McArthur named Commander)

9 Korean Conflict  UN forces saved at Pusan Perimeter by around the clock bombing & interdiction  McArthur launches surprise amphibious assault at Inchon  UN forces drive North Koreans back across 38th parallel and attempt to unify the country  China enters pushing the UN forces back

10 VIDEO

11 Air Power in Korean Conflict  First use of jet fighters on both sides  MiG-15 outperforms F-80  MiG-15 retreats back to bases in China  Airspace south of Yalu known as “MiG Alley”  F-86 Sabre proves superior to the MiG-15 Kill ratio of 10-to-1 Kill ratio of 10-to-1

12 VIDEO

13 Results of Korean Conflict  Counterland InterdictionInterdiction Close-Air SupportClose-Air Support

14 Deterrence and Missile Development  Snark  Atlas, Titan  Minuteman becomes the mainstay of SAC’s missile retaliatory force  NORAD established in 1957  Single Integrated Operational Plan for using nuclear weapons (SIOP)

15 Cuban Missile Crisis  U-2 Reconnaissance plane details Soviet missile launchers in Cuba  Missile force placed on alert status  President Kennedy chooses option of naval quarantine  Soviet Union backs down  “Flexible Response” doctrine evolves

16 Summary  General Curtis LeMay  Korean Conflict US InterventionUS Intervention Air Power Air Power Results Results  ICBMs Development Development Cuban Missile Crisis Cuban Missile Crisis