B-17 Photo Recon over Japan before Doolittle raid

[Larry deZeng]

Excellent critique, MWG.

One further comment: if all of this had actually happened, it's hard to believe that the large, expansive Japanese aircraft spotting and reporting network that employed thousands of spotter posts, giant acoustic equipment for picking up engine sounds at considerable distances as well radio intercept and primitive electronic equipment didn't locate the B-17 and immediately report it up the air defense chain of command. If so, there can be no question that it would appear in numerous Japanese documents of the time and covered in Japanese histories of the war. I've researched my way through thousands of Japanese wartime and postwar documents that were translated into English as well as the MAGIC documentation, and there's nary a peep.

L. deZ,