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The explanation I'm most partial to at the moment is bad copy editing. The Roman Catholic Church long ago made the decision to bind itself to everything in the Bible that survived Nicaea. I don't think we should put ourselves in the position of modern cardinals trying to explain how the source book is free of errors in the face of clear contradictions.

When I read the passage quoted regarding 2/2nd AD and 44th AD, what I read is a brain fart by the copy editor. The formations are defying orders like several others from III Corps. If one is blazing through the copy editing task to meet a deadline, then a sentence that has units of the corps defying orders makes sense. However, the idea of staying put to defy orders got mistranslated into moving to defy orders--possibly because the formations listed above are acting in defiance of the rest of the corps (which is itself defying orders).

The alternative is some mental gymnastics that will always have a problem. Either the corps was supposed to withdraw and units that stayed put are violating orders or the corps wasn't supposed to withdraw and the units moving to Bremerhaven disobeyed orders. Given the choice, I opt for the simplest explanation; i.e., the one given in Going Home. Everyone is supposed to rally at Bremerhaven and move back to the US. There's plenty of room for scheming and excitement between the American formations that can't get back to Bremerhaven and the ones that choose to stay put in defiance of orders without adding in shadowy motivations and orders that contravene the printed Operation Omega orders.

Good attention to detail in finding the conflict, Olefin.