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mo4ch:>Pentagon to name new facility after Curtis ‘Bombs Away’ LeMay | Mo4ch News

The US Strategic Command, which oversees America’s nuclear arsenal, plans to name a new facility after the legendary but controversial bomber General Curtis LeMay, who notoriously said there are ‘no innocent civilians.’The new 900,000 square-foot Strategic Command headquarters at the Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, one of the most secure buildings on Earth, will be named after LeMay, STRATCOM’s chief of military construction told the Washington Free Beacon. The previous HQ also bore the controversial general’s name.LeMay made a name for himself in helping to draw up Washington’s strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater during the Second World War. Though considered “effective” in the war effort, the general’s enthusiastic firebombing of Japanese civilian centers attained him the reputation reflected by one of his nicknamed, “The Demon.”Also on rt.comThe Pentagon’s new nuclear doctrine is scary as hellAdding to the notoriety, LeMay often expressed such heart-warming sentime…