strategic bombing
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Originally posted by Spanky
Curtis LeMay said after the bombing runs on Tokyo, that if we lost the war he would been tried for war crimes.
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When you think about what he was doing, you can understand why. When they firebombed Tokyo, there really wasn't a pretense that they were going after military or industrial targets.
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