Case Evidence · CE-V86-22
Navy Secretary Knox "false alarm" statement and conflicting War Department account
Documented1942-02-25 · Official statements
Record
- Date / period
- 1942-02-25
- Reported event / document
- Navy Secretary Knox "false alarm" statement and conflicting War Department account
- Evidence type
- Official statements
- Original data accessible?
- Yes
- Verification status
- Documented
- Competing explanations / missing data
- No aircraft identified
- Next step
- Obtain Western Defense Command records Bounded search: the official history 'The Army Air Forces in World War II' vol. I pp. 283-284 (notes 80-86) documents Knox's 'false alarm' statement and the Army's conflicting account, but it is a secondary history. Marshall's 26 Feb 1942 memo to Roosevelt was not found as a scan. (chunk F, 2026-11-12)
- Source ID
- SRC-V86-38
Why this grade
Documented From Case Evidence's Verification status ("Documented"). Grade rules.