Curtis LeMay
Curtis LeMay
Curtis Emerson LeMaywas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth15 November 1906
CityColumbus, OH
CountryUnited States of America
military enemy use
If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.
fighting bad-ass soldier
If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.
age bomb
We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.
american-soldier bad chinese grows potential reason rule schools situation worse
That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.
aspects bother good immoral moral thinks war
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.
american-soldier elbows might skinned
That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
guys lead mind racket since tough
I don't mind being called tough since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.
country thinking hands
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.
war shooting today
Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.
war japan want
We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?
war criminals lost
If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.
war korea years
We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.... Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?
war criminals killing
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.