He HAS met Mio, right? Just checking :)

In real life, LeMay was one of the leaders of the disastrous Schweinfurt-Regensburg bombing mission of August 1943, and later the mastermind of the indiscriminate night firebombing of Japanese cities. Still later, first as head of Strategic Air Command and then Air Force Chief of Staff, he was a vocal advocate of pre-emptive nuclear strikes on the USSR. Brutal to his own men and absolutely vicious to the enemy - the Patton of the air. Coiner of the phrase "bomb them back into the Stone Age." A real piece of work.

Yeah, him being the model for Gen. Ripper from Dr. Strangelove really says it all. I do maintain a sliver of respect for him though, if only because his methods worked.

In the spirit of Devil's Advocatism, the number of 18 year old majors and colonels (and college age generals in Minna's case) in the witches really has to rankle a lot of the conventional officer corps. I won't call it rank inflation because in terms of combat power that they control that's probably about right, but it certainly looks weird.