I wish I could read that article: "1945, April 11– Thomas Pynchon and modern war" by Glenda Carpio, in Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (eds). A New Literary History of America. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2009. http://newliteraryhistory.com/index.html If I'm correct, April 11, 1945, is when the Mittelwerke was taken and liberated. Clement