"John McAdams" <john.mcadams@marquette.edu> wrote in message
news:420e2bd2.2503222@mcadams.posc.mu.edu...
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:26:46 -0500, Peter Fokes
> <justplainfokesCT@rogers.com> wrote:
>
>>Quotes attributed to General LeMay:
>>
>>
>>"I have tried at all times to slaughter as few civilians as possible."
>>(Mission with LeMay: My Story, 1965)
>>
>
> On this one, at least, LeMay comes off a lot better than "Bomber"
> Harris, who ran the British strategic bombing campaign in WWII.
>


Perhaps, if you believe Lemay that is... The US bombing doctrine in
Europe was to bomb in daylight, believing that they could be more accurate
that way (in practice, for several reasons, they weren't). Over Japan LeMay
went against this doctrine -- took most of the guns out of his B29s, and
filled them full of incendaries, and flew at night (Japanese cities were
largely wood-built). One single fire-bomb raid on Tokyo killed approximately
100,000 people, far more than were killed at say Dresden (by several days of
combined UK and US raids). So I'm not sure I do believe that statement by
Lemay.

Mike :-)






>
>>"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." -- 3 October, 1968
>>
>>"I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United
>>States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war. ...
>>Native analysts may look sadly back from the future on that period
>>when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't... That was the
>>era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even
>>skinned our elbows doing it.... "
>>
>>
>
> .John
>
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