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Originally Posted by edwest2
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Hmmm.................indeed.
"The flight was so classified that the Air Corps captain was not cleared for any operational facts; he did not know the names or numbers of the crews, the take-off dates nor the final results. Regular military channels were deliberately uninformed and intentionally not cleared. Nor was President Roosevelt informed until after the triumph of the Doolittle Raid."
Pretty convenient, I think. What is not explained by this statement is WHY it was still being withheld from declassification 80-81 years later. The secrecy level was to keep the B-17(s) from being shot down and the entire project exposed. After the Doolittle Raid, there was no long any need for that level of secrecy.
L. deZ.