So, the Ramey memo has now been shown to talk about "victims" and "disc" etc.
Sounds like a bit of confirmation to me. This brings up one problem in my opinion...Rudiak speculates from digital enhancement and claims the General was holding a telex...
...David Rudiak, who has a Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley, found two key phrases: "the victims of the wreck" and "in the 'disc' they will ship."
No AAF General is ever going to say wreck. He might say wreckage or crash but never plebian wreck.
Whether such a person would use "wreck" vs wreckage etc. DEPENDS ON MANY FACTORS.
1) What was the preferred vocabulary in the family he grew up in . . . in the region he grew up in . . . among the friends he played with . . .
2) How much of an independent personality was he in terms of his lifestyle, word uses etc.
3) What era he grew up in.
4) What post was he stationed at in what year. How rural was it etc.
5) Many military message writers naturally and others were so encouraged to use short words where possible to speed communications. . . . a practice Radiomen typing on clunky teletypes greatly appreciated.