B-17 Photo Recon over Japan before Doolittle raid

[Larry deZeng]

"Dale Cox's TOP SECRET FLIGHT is nonfiction, but fictional themes are woven into the plot........."

Author Cox and/or his publisher need to reveal where he got his information from. I know from my years of dredging the U.S. National Archives as well as the Air Force Historical Research Center in Alabama that many particularly sensitive documents of that era have not yet been declassified, but I strongly doubt that this would be one of them. If the author or publisher refuse to disclose this information, then they are doing a very considerable disservice to the history of World War II.

L. deZ.

[edwest2]

For what it's worth:


https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...135436733.html

[MW Giles]

Just to correct the press release

Lindbergh's was not the longest flight

The longest flight at the time was 7162 miles from Egypt to Darwin Australia by RAF Wellesleys in November 1938

Casts further doubt on the other claims

Martin

[Larry deZeng]

Originally Posted by edwest2

For what it's worth:


https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...135436733.html

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.