Mission with LeMay My Story Author:Curtis E LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor This Book, Mission With Lemay: My Story by Curtis E. Lemay and MacKinlay Kantor, is the personal and outspoken story of a history making General Curtis E. Lemay. His military contributions were enormous. His firebombing campaign against Japan between March 1945 and the Japanese surrender in August 1945 may have killed more than 500,000 ... more »Japanese civilians. He said, "if the US lost the war he fully expected to be tried for war crimes". After the war, he unintentionally initiated the Berlin Airlift, then reorganized the Strategic Air Command (SAC) into an effective instrument of nuclear war.« less