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At 1:06 am on March 23rd. 1951, a C-124 Globemaster II of the United States Air Force, bound from Maine to the United Kingdom, sent a routine message to oceanic control in Ireland, providing a revised estimated time of arrival. The Plane, with 53 people aboard, never reached its destination. The fate of the plane and men has become one of the enduring mysteries of 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.
Absent a few coincidences, and "fortunate blunders" on December 5, 1941 the history of December 7th could have different.
