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This is the process of Ockham's Razor. To apply your thought process to reject everything that is not in official war histories because you don't wish to explore the possibility is not a valid logical thought process.
The purpose of a forum is to explore the facts and uncover history which may for whatever reason may be lost to us in the present day. Just blankly denying and blocking that exploration serves no purpose.
In the absence of some other logical theory we have a series of related unusual facts all pointing to a similar conclusion.
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I take pretty strong exception to this line of thinking. It is based on the assumption that all options are known and thus only the writer's option fits the evidence. Proving that one has all of the evidence is nigh on impossible. Just because one doesn't know something, doesn't mean that that information didn't exist at one time, such as an alternative reason for the extended bomb bays of the 3 selected He 177's.
Nor is it my or any other person's responsibility to come up with that alternative purpose. The facts may or may not out one day. If the writer wants to prove his case, then he should find the documentation that actually supports his contention.
And Ed, any physicist with some knowledge in the field could have conjectured on a possible bomb design. It is a long way from a crude drawing to an actual bomb. I can just imagine the tons of drawings created by the Manhattan Project. Where are those tons of drawings for Germany's bomb, assuming one was anywhere near construction?
Regards,
Richard