On January 18, 1957, five planes took off from Castle Air Force Base in California on "by far the most colorful and perhaps the most important of all peacetime operations ever undertaken by the United States Air Force,”
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.