Major war documents often neglected to address involvement in specific conflicts
Evidence
But what struck Ned Hagerman as strange, and struck Steve Endicott as strange—and what strikes me as strange—is that this document, written during a horrendous war that had killed tens of thousands of American soldiers (and millions of Korean civilians and hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Korean soldiers) makes almost no mention of Korea. … One has to suspect that the paragraphs here and there that mention Korea—and China and Russia and wartime Japan—have been whited out. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 167
Categorization
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 167
- XREF: connects to: Archival misplacement can expose documents stripped of their official framing