Curtis LeMay Quote

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

On the morality of the firebombing campaign

American Experience. Race for the Superbomb. General Curtis E. LeMay, (1906 - 1990) | PBS