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In reply to the discussion: WWII mystery [View all]

flotsam

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11. LeMay was nuttier than a fruitcake!
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 11:45 PM
Oct 2019

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.
Curtis LeMay

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.
Curtis LeMay

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.
Curtis LeMay

I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
Curtis LeMay

Not a guy I admire...

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WWII mystery [View all] frogmarch Oct 2019 OP
This is probably not the same person but... radical noodle Oct 2019 #1
Thank you frogmarch Oct 2019 #4
I think that's a different Bud Anderson John Read Oct 2020 #14
Regarding Maybelle... DURHAM D Oct 2019 #2
Wow frogmarch Oct 2019 #5
"On an administrative flight shortly before returning to the United States, in September 1944 lapfog_1 Oct 2019 #3
Thanks for the link frogmarch Oct 2019 #6
Just for fun flotsam Oct 2019 #7
Not sure it matters but according to the obit DURHAM D Oct 2019 #9
You're correct about the B25 crew. dflprincess Nov 2020 #15
I assume you are aware that Gen. LeMay was DURHAM D Oct 2019 #8
LeMay was nuttier than a fruitcake! flotsam Oct 2019 #11
Is that your step-mother's handwriting? Beartracks Oct 2019 #10
I assumed it was at first frogmarch Oct 2019 #12
WTF frogmarch Oct 2019 #13
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