Greg F, thank you; most interesting, indeed. I will also look up the more, as you put it, "mainstream" sources. (D'jever read the contemporaneous 1960's book entitled "A Texan Looks at Lyndon"? Really gave the lowdown on LBJ, lemme tellya.) You were also, I presume, no fan of JFK, right? Y'know, given his old man's well-known admiration of Hitler which got him Yanked (sorry) out of the Court of St. James by FDR. Of course Joe Kennedy's sons did serve (on our side)in WWII; but then so did George Haitch-Dubya Bush so that doesn't prove anything. Cover, probably. Anyway, I heard "41"'s war-hero story, shot down over the Pacific, was phony and he let his co-pilot drown to save his own ass. Hm. Bet there's plenty that's fishy about that PT-109 stuff, too.