Curtis LeMay

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• 11/20/2022
  

  James M. Scott's "Black Snow" Traces the Line from Tokyo to Hiroshima

  by James Thornton Harris

  "LeMay’s operation really served as an important trial balloon to see how the American public would respond to the mass killing of enemy civilians.... To the surprise of many in Washington, however, the American public voiced no real objection."

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/17/2021
  

  Narrative Napalm: Malcolm Gladwell's Apologia for American Butchery

  by Noah Kulwin

  Reviewer Noah Kulwin argues Malcolm Gladwell's book on the rise of American air power misrepresents the military history of World War II, wrongly elevates Curtis LeMay to the status of a heroic genius, and blithely passes over the vast carnage of incendiary and atomic bombings. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/25/2021
  

  Malcolm Gladwell on the Hard Decisions of War

  by Thomas E. Ricks

  Malcolm Gladwell's new study of the US Air Force unexpectedly rehabilitates the image of General Curtis LeMay. 

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• 3/21/2021
  

  Power to Rule the Skies: A Forgotten Innovator of the Strategic Air Command

  by Brent D. Ziarnick

  General Thomas S. Power should emerge from the shadow of his mentor Curtis LeMay as a leader of the United States Strategic Air Command at the critical moment in the dawn of the Cold War. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/1/2020
  

  Opinion: 75 Years On, Remember Hiroshima And Nagasaki. But Remember Toyama Too

  by Cary Karacas and David Fedman

  AAF officials commonly used sanitizing language to mask the fact that they were targeting entire cities for destruction. Press releases described attacks not on cities, but on "industrial urban areas." Tactical reports set their sights not on densely populated neighborhoods, but on "worker housing."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/9/2020
  

  ‘We Hated What We Were Doing’: Veterans Recall Firebombing Japan

  American airmen who took part in the 1945 firebombing missions grapple with the particular horror they witnessed being inflicted on those below.