Really good point mate. General 'Bombs Away' Lemay who was the...

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    Really good point mate. General 'Bombs Away' Lemay who was the man behind the Tokyo Fire bombing that killed 80,000 plus and a player in the Hiroshima-Nagasaki atomic bombings, later received a highly decorated commendation from the Japanese Government once Japan capitulated. A complicated matter whereby the mass slaughter of civilians actually saved a larger scale slaughter... If my memory is correct he than was the man behind the massive, relentless bombing of the Ho Chi Minh trail that decimated Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam with the statement of 'Bomb them back into the Stone Age'.. War is a complex quagmire... Villan or hero depends on where you sit in the outcome...
 
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