When the war began, "we slipped a note kind of under the door into the Pentagon and said let us go up there to North Korea and burn down five of the biggest towns...and that ought to stop it. Well, the answer to that was four or give screams -- you'll kill a lot of non-combatants and its too horrible. yet over a period of three years...-"we burned down every town in North Korea and South Korea, too...Now over a period of three years this is palatable, but to kill a few people to stop this happening- a lot of people can't stomach it" Curtis LeMay oral history, 28th April 1966
