John Aldaz On January 26, 1950, when General Curtis E. LeMay, commander of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command, attended yet another conference to discuss the next U.S. long-range heavy ...

Curtis LeMay (centre) with US President John F. Kennedy at a Florida air force base in 1962. Photo: AP US soldiers inspect buildings destroyed by a B-29 bomber in Tokyo in June 1945.

A group of activists is calling for the revocation of a Japanese government honor given to U.S. Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, who masterminded the devastating firebombing of Tokyo during World War II.