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Re: "Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb" by James M. Scott
Postscript Curiosity Item:
I had lunch at the Fort Myers North Post Officer's Club across from the Pentagon one October day in 1960 along with my uncle-by-marriage Pat Frank, who was an author of fiction about World War III in the United States. General Curtis LeMay was CinC SAC (Strategic Air Command) at the time. I was in civvies so as not to embarrass the General because I was only an (E-4, i.e., the equivalent of a corporal!). I found him to be easy going, humorous and very much in command of his subject, but at the same time a no-nonsense commander of the huge force and responsibility assigned to him: America's airborne nuclear arsenal.
L. deZ.
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