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After rewatching Fog of War the other day, it reminds me of a McNamara quote of Lemay regarding the fire bombings of Japan. McNamara: "LeMay said, if we'd lost
by throwaway743 3y ago
After rewatching Fog of War the other day, it reminds me of a McNamara quote of Lemay regarding the fire bombings of Japan.
McNamara: "LeMay said, if we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say, we were behaving as war criminals."
- 77pt77 3y ago"The only war-crime is losing."
- zabzonk 3y agoChuck Yeager to his wingman (or vice versa, can't remember) in WW2 after being given orders to strafe everything, including civilians, when coming back from escort missions - "Jesus, we had better win this!"
- 13of40 3y ago"Our seventy-five Mustangs were assigned an area of fifty miles by fifty miles inside Germany and ordered to strafe anything that moved. The object was to demoralize the German population...We weren't asked how we felt zapping people. It was a miserable, dirty mission, but we all took off on time and did it." Gosh. https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=89735 https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=89735
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoHow many people have actually been prosecuted as war criminals even on the losing side?