Curtis LeMay

Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… 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. I’ll tell you what war is about, you’ve got to kill people, and when you’ve killed enough they stop fighting. We’re at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed? As far as casualties were concerned I think there were … Continue reading Curtis LeMay