Question

[Wayout]

From this weeks "Car Talk" puzzler (or Help me win a "Car Talk" coffee mug):

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Let me set the scene: it's World War II, an RAF airfield north of London. A dimly lit Quonset hut filled with air crews just returned from bombing runs over Germany.

The meeting opens with the chaplain leading the men in prayer for their lost comrades. He is followed by the flight operations chief, who begins the debriefing by asking the airmen, "From what direction were you attacked by the German fighter planes?"

Without hesitation or dissent, the reply was, "From above and behind."

The flight operations chief hastily scribbles the information on the back of top secret maps, and hands it to a junior officer with the instructions, "Get this information to the departing air crews. It may save their lives!"

As the officer turns to leave, from the inky shadows, a hand grasps his arm and he hears these words:

"Hold that order. The information you're about to give will lose lives rather than save them."

What did the guy from the inky shadows know that the flight operations chief didn't?
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Any ideas?

[vorticon]

why would he write something on the back of a top secret map and hand it to a junior officer?

[caldera]

From this weeks "Car Talk" puzzler (or Help me win a "Car Talk" coffee mug):

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Let me set the scene: it's World War II, an RAF airfield north of London. A dimly lit Quonset hut filled with air crews just returned from bombing runs over Germany.

I'm gonna post a thread in the wishlist requesting the Quonset Hut Mark XVI bomber. We need a new perk bomber. 

[Fulmar]

You see the only information that the flight exec had in the dimly lit Quonset hut was from the guys who survived, from the guys who came back. The guys who came back were all attacked from above and behind, but it may be that those weren't the fatal attacks. The fatal attacks were from some other direction, and those people, those airmen, had no advice to offer, because they didn't come back.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Now that's clever 

[Fugita]

it's basically the same logic they used when they beefed up the armour on the B-25. seems that none of them ever came back with holes under the wing on the fuselage. so that's where the armour was strengthened.