Sherry, Michael (September 10, 1989). <i>The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon</i>, p. 287 (from "LeMay's interview with Sherry," interview "after the war," p. 408 n. 108). Yale University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0300044140.
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Mission With LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 565. In an interview two years after the publication of this book, General LeMay said, "I never said we should bomb them back to the Stone Age. I said we had the capability to do it. I want to save lives on both sides"; reported in The Washington Post (October 4, 1968), p. A8. Many years later LeMay would claim that this was his ghost writer's overwriting.
Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 559.
Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 561.
Quoted by Richard Rhodes in Wikipedia: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Strategic Air Warfare: An Interview with Generals (1988), p. 88.
Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 382.
From his autobiography, also requoted in Rhodes, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', p. 596
Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 560-561.
The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series, p. 574
On the morality of the firebombing campaign http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX61.html)
“Actually, I think it's more immoral to use less force than necessary, than it is to use more.”
if you use less force, you kill off more of humanity in the long run, because you are merely protracting the struggle.
Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 382.
