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Originally Posted by DEM
What was this Markham fellow's theory? Was it that Weirter was too far away to see the raid? That has certainly been discredited by people on this forum.
A lot of people have been making very pushy statements over the years, claiming that there were no witnesses to Bishop's raid. But it's beginning to look like that claim was an out-and-out lie. We have a witness and we have his name. Still, I'd feel better if I saw his actual testimony. This seems like a very important piece of information and I'm frankly surprised that more attention has't been paid to it. Someone out there must know exactly what this balloonist said.
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I don't have the story he published in front of me, but IIRC, his claim was that with the weather, and the time of day, that it was unlikely that it could have been seen by a balloon observer.
The problem with witnesses and any reports they might have made comes down to the fact that most of the paperwork that was involved in his VC award was destroyed, reportedly, most likely as a result of a space saving measure in the years between WWI and WWII. This phenomonon has been documented. In fact, Barrett Tillman has commented on it here, and I agree with him, 100%. Whoever was responsible for this, should be resurrected and strung up.
