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My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got...

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Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would...

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Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and ...

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Born: 1906-11-15

Died: 1990-10-01

Curtis LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 3, 1990) was a general in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of American Independent Party candidate George Wallace in the 1968 presidential election. During World War II, he was known for planning and executing a massive bombing campaign against cities in Japan and a crippling minelaying campaign in Japan's internal waterways. After the war, he initiated the Berlin airlift, then reorganized the Strategic Air Command (SAC) into an effective instrument of nuclear war. He served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force from 1961 until his retirement in 1965.More

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