Good post. It would have been devastating then....just as it is now. I will never understand why leaking of vital information is allowed.
It borders on treason!!
In World War II the Chicago Tribune basically gave away that the US had broken Japanese Naval Codes.
Nothing happened to them.
The idea that there was some sort of mythical good 'ol days where American Newspapers didn't give away vital information and if they did they were prosecuted is a myth.
The problem was even worse, on both sides, in the Civil War.
You're too kind. It IS treason to leak classified information during a war but just who is going to call them on it? Tick, tick, tick, hmmm, nobody with authority that's for sure.