 | L. Freedman - Political Science - 2003 - 592 pages
...of this campaign, wrote: I am influenced by the conviction that the present stage of development in the air war against Japan presents the AAF for the...strength is proportionate to the magnitude of its task. 1 feel that the destruction of Japan's ability to wage war is within the capability of this command.... | |
 | Loyd E. Lee - History - 1991 - 452 pages
...of this campaign, wrote: I am influenced by the conviction that the present stage of development in the air war against Japan presents the AAF for the...I feel that the destruction of Japan's ability to wage war is within the capability of this command. The particular contribution to be made by the atom-bomb... | |
 | Richard Rhodes - History - 2012 - 890 pages
...tens of thousands more. "I consider that for the first time," LeMay wrote Norstad privately in April, "strategic air bombardment faces a situation in which...I feel that the destruction of Japan's ability to wage war lies within the capability of this command." He had found a method, LeMay had begun to believe,... | |
 | Gordon Martel - World War, 1939-1945 - 2004 - 538 pages
...force. In April LeMay wrote: I am influenced by the conviction that the present stage of development in the air war against Japan presents the AAF for the...I feel that the destruction of Japan's ability to wage war is within the capability of this command.15 The American distaste for area bombing had evaporated... | |
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I am influenced by the conviction that the present stage of development of the air war against Japan presents the AAF for the first time with the opportunity of proving the power of the strategic air arm. I consider that for the first time strategic air... 