Madoc said:
I really enjoy all the Luft 46 stuff - but let's get some equal billing for our side, eh!
The real issue is that the US didn't lose the war, so unlike the Germans we didn't have our secret files rifled through and widely distrubuted; and unlike the Soviet Union, we didn't inevitably collapse and get replaced initially with economic chaos and then the sudden discovery that people will pay money to look at obsolete, failed design projects. So, our secret stuff to an annoying degree *stayed* secret.
Things obviously leak out from time to time, but that's not quite the same as whole aircraft companies vomitted forth their archives. Plus, we actually don't *shoot* our lawyers. As a consequence, they can often convince corporations to dump their archives into shredders and incinerators... thus there's often nothing *to* reveal.