The WWII P forgot

[David Gentle]

> No doubt in my mind that Pynchon had he known could either have a) used the
> material creatively  or b) omitted it creatively as he certainly did many
> other events both momentous and small of WWII
>      P.
It occured to me that there might have been a lot of rumours about military secrets and that those
had been the basis for "the white visitation". I can imagine Pynchon hearing about some mysterious
operation and drawing his own conclusions about what it involved (given a vacuum a paranoid mind
will fill it and, of course, there's proverbs for paranoid no. 3).