Acknowledgements

— The quotation from General Curtis E. LeMay is used with the kind permission of Bantam


Doubleday Dell Publishing. It is taken from Mission With Lemay: My Story, General Curtis E.

LeMay and Mackinlay Kantor (New York: Doubleday and Company, 1965), p. 572.

— The quotation from Admiral James B. Stockdale is used with his very generous permission.

— The quotations from Admiral John Paul Jones and General Douglas MacArthur are used with the very kind permission of the U.S. Naval Institute Press. They are taken from the Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations, compiled and edited by COL Robert Debs Heinl, Jr., USMC (Ret.), 1978.