Death
General LeMay died on October 1, 1990, at March Air Force Base in Riverside County, California, and is buried in the United States Air Force Academy Cemetery at Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was survived by his wife Helen, who died in 1992 and is buried next to the general.
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