Original 1947 AP Wirephoto showing a photographic copy of a secret 1942 letter written by Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson. The letter summarized the Joint Chiefs of Staff position that diverting materials to a massive flying boat program would be "inadvisable" and was entered into testimony during the Senate War Investigating Committee hearings involving Howard Hughes. Separate original caption and photograph are mounted together on black archival paper with period tape. Measures approximately 7¼ x 7⅞ inches overall. From the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
