The case of the whistleblower complaint about the Goodrich company falsifying test results for the brakes for a new Air Force attack plane has generally been presented as a morality play “there is the virtuous hero, the corrupt and evil corporate villains." But is the story more complex than that?
By September of 1944, the Western Allies had broken out of the Normandy beachehead, and suddenly and quickly moved across northern France . By September 7th, the 90th division was stretched across the northern sector on Patton’s Third Army’s left, advancing slowly northeast. As they did so the German defenders made a risky attack in an effort to spoil the allied advance, cutting through Allied lines in a surprise action at the small town of Mairy-Mannville.