NoOneFamous wrote:
Yeppers, he was a resident of Long Beach in 1935, so I threw him into the mix. What did you think of the re-write? Better or worse?

I first heard of him on 'QI' when it was mentioned that he was forbidden to fly across the Atlantic because the 'plane was not up to it, so announced that he was going to do a cross-country flight instead. He turned up in Dublin claiming a navigation error.

I think that the re-write is a definite improvement. The idea of disguising some of the ships as American ones is very plausible, German raiders did the same thing in @.