[hellbender]

You can thank Curtis LeMay for part of that also, because he ran the Strategic Air Command after the war.

[Northern Yankee]

The new book on LeMay is worth the read. (The Life and Wars of Curtis LeMay)

There's a humorous anecdote about a B-17 pilot that had landed on a fog shrouded runway in England shortly after LeMay's arrival. The pilot was having trouble seeing anything.

LeMay got on the horn and said, "Can you see the runway lights and follow them?" The pilot retorted back, "Hell... I can't even see my co-pilot!"