AWOL Bush - Summary and Forgeries?

US News and World Report has a balanced summary of most of the present facts of Bush's service.

The White House copies of the CBS memos appear to be obvious [wrong see below] forgeries. The content is correct and consistent with the known facts about Bush being a good officer who decided in 1972 he didn't need to be in the service anymore. However, some claim the materials appear computer generated which raises questions how anyone could have been fooled they were from that time period. See articles from the conservative American Spectator

Washington Post

ADDED - A closer examination of the demonstrations that the documents were forgeries seems to indicate the opposite.

The documents appear to be from Killian's p files which all officers were required to keep and were shipped free to new duty stations. As these are personal files, copies of personnel actions taken and Cover Your Ass memos for the record, there is no standard format.

They appear to be typed on an IBM Executive model D with the optional supercript TH, available for purchase at that time. IBM had the most common office typewriters at the time and a military organization would likely purchase the supercript keys. (The Executive was not the ball type of the also common Selectric II. Except for the smaller superscript th they could have been typed on a Selectric II, they could have been typed on a Selectric if someone changed the ball for the superscript.)

The superimposed gif's demonstrating that it is easy to duplicate the memos in Microsoft word actual demonstate the opposite. They demonstrate it is in the same Times Roman font, available in 72 and now, so superficially it looks identical. But the original memo has some letters not level, like on typewritten documents, and the superscript th is at a different height.