Editing Curtis LeMay (section)

==Miscellaneous==
===Amateur radio operator===
LeMay was a [[Heathkit]] customer<ref name="shea19820913">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26|title=Buckley finds word processing on Z-89 'liberating' |work=InfoWorld | date=September 13, 1982| author=Shea, Tom | page=26}}</ref> and active [[amateur radio]] operator and held a succession of call signs; K0GRL, K4FRA, and W6EZV. He held these calls respectively while stationed at Offutt AFB, [[Washington, D.C.]], and when he retired in California. K0GRL is still the call sign of the Strategic Air Command Memorial Amateur Radio Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2005/02/18/1/|title=Surfin': More Hamming at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue|publisher=National Association for Amateur Radio}}</ref> He was famous for being on the air on amateur bands while flying on board SAC bombers. LeMay became aware that the new single sideband [[single-sideband modulation|(SSB)]] technology offered a big advantage over amplitude modulation [[Amplitude Modulation|(AM)]] for SAC aircraft operating long distances from their bases. In conjunction with Heath engineers and [[Arthur A. Collins|Art Collins]] (W0CXX) of [[Collins Radio]], he established SSB as the radio standard for SAC bombers in 1957.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arrl.org/qst/2003/01/McElroy.pdf|title=Amateur Radio and the Rise of SSB |publisher=National Association for Amateur Radio}}</ref>{{r|shea19820913}}

===Sports car racing===
LeMay was also a sports car owner and enthusiast who owned an [[Allard Motor Company|Allard J2]]. As the "SAC era" began to wind down, LeMay loaned out facilities of SAC bases for use by the [[Sports Car Club of America]],<ref name=SCCA2006/> as the era of early [[street circuit|street races]] began to die out. [[Turner Air Force Base]] hosted the first SCCA race on a military installation in 1952, while SAC's operating base at Offutt welcomed the [[SCCA National Sports Car Championship]] the following year.<ref name="Nebraska HOF" /> LeMay was not permitted to race himself, so he allowed those like SCCA president Fred Wacker and Roy Scott to drive his Allard when the association raced at Offutt.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scca.com/articles/1998526-honoring-american-veterans-general-curtis-e-lemay|title=Honoring American Veterans: General Curtis E. LeMay|work=[[Sports Car Club of America]]|date=November 11, 2015|access-date=July 11, 2024}}</ref> Revenue from the races were used to improve living quarters at the bases or donated to the [[Air Force Aid Society]] and local charities.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-austin-american-cars-celebrities-c/151160932/|title=Cars, Celebrities, Cuties Bow at Bergstrom Today|newspaper=[[Austin American-Statesman]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=March 28, 1954|access-date=July 11, 2024}}</ref> Racing at SAC installations ended in 1954 after a Congressional investigation over using public funding to organize the events.<ref>{{cite news|last=Considine|first=Bob|agency=[[International News Service|INS]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-herald-trained-airmen-leaving/151160994/|title=Trained Airmen Leaving Service|newspaper=[[Miami Herald]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=August 5, 1954|access-date=July 11, 2024}}</ref>

He was awarded the [[Woolf Barnato]] Award, SCCA's highest award, for contributions to the Club, in 1954.<ref name=SCCA2006/> LeMay was inducted into the Nebraska Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2004 and the SCCA Hall of Fame in 2007.<ref name=SCCA2006>{{cite web|url=http://www.scca.com/News/News.asp?Ref=729
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205225745/http://www.scca.com/News/News.asp?Ref=729|archive-date=December 5, 2006|title=SCCA Announces 2007 Hall of Fame Class|date=November 22, 2006|publisher=Sports Car Club of America}}</ref><ref name="Nebraska HOF">{{cite web|url=https://www.narhof.com/inductees/2004#general-curtis-lemay|title=Class of 2004 – General Curtis LeMay|work=Nebraska Auto Racing Hall of Fame|access-date=July 11, 2024}}</ref>

===Air Force Academy exemplar===
On March 13, 2010, LeMay was named the [[USAFA Class exemplar|class exemplar]] for the [[United States Air Force Academy]] class of 2013.<ref>{{Citation |url=http://69.199.231.171/wiki/index.php/Class_exemplar |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110819184219/http://69.199.231.171/wiki/index.php/Class_exemplar  |archive-date=August 19, 2011 |title=Class exemplar }}</ref>

===Executive Jet Aviation pioneer===
In 1964, LeMay became one of the founding board members of [[Executive Jet Aviation]] (EJA) (now called NetJets), along with fellow USAF generals Paul Tibbets and Olbert Lassiter, Washington lawyer and former military pilot [[Bruce Sundlun]], and entertainers [[James Stewart]] (who was also an Air Force general in the reserves) and [[Arthur Godfrey]].

It was the first private business jet charter and aircraft management company in the world.

===Judo===
[[Judo]]'s resurgence after the war was due primarily to two individuals, [[Kyuzo Mifune]] and LeMay. The pre-war death of [[Kanō Jigorō|Jigorō Kanō]] ("the father of judo"), wartime demands on the Japanese, their surrender, postwar occupation, and the martial-arts ban<ref>"With the end of the war in August 1945, the Ministry of Education regained control of Japan's physical education curriculum, and this ended the bayonet and grenade throwing in the Japanese public schools. On October 22, 1945, the Supreme Commander Allied Powers (SCAP) notified the Ministry of Education that "dissemination of militaristic and ultra-nationalistic ideology will be prohibited and all military education and drill will be discontinued." Two months later, on January 4, 1946, SCAP issued Directive 550, which, with its companion Directive 548, required "the removal and exclusion from public life of militaristic and ultra nationalistic persons." One result of these orders was that the Ministry of Education eliminated martial arts from school curricula.": from [http://ejmas.com/jcs/jcsart_svinth_1202.htm Documentation Regarding the Budo Ban in Japan, 1945–1950], ''Journal of Combative Sport'', December 2002</ref> all contributed to a time of uncertainty for judo. As assistant to General [[Douglas MacArthur]] during the [[occupation of Japan]], LeMay made practicing judo a routine part of Air Force tours of duty in Japan. Many Americans brought home stories of a "tiny old man" (Mifune) throwing down healthy, young men without any apparent effort. LeMay became a promoter of judo training and provided political support for judo in the early years after the war. For this, he was awarded the license of ''[[Shihan]]''. In addition, LeMay promoted judo within the armed forces of the United States.<ref>"{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110724205450/http://www.456fis.org/CURTIS_E._LAMAY.htm General Curtis E. LeMay]}}", [[456th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron]], February 10, 2014</ref>