In 19 forty nine, there was a movie star in gregory peck called 12 o'clock high about that moment in the air war. The lead character, general frank savage, was based in part on lemay. And in the movie, general savage is under so much stress trying to keep his pilots flying on these impossible missions, that he has a nervous breakdown. Screen writers love the idea that beneath a stoic exterior is a hurricane of repressed emotion. But that's hollywood's lamay, not the actual lamay. One of lamay's pilot later said that when he shared his fears about flying a combat mission, lamay replied, ralph, you're