Make note of the first named inventor, and assign his name to memory. He figures in a dispatch, with some uncertain implications, to follow in coming days.
We've documented, and will further document, Germany's development of Coal liquefaction technology leading up to WWII, which resulted in multiple Axis synthetic fuel production facilities in the Coal-producing regions of occupied Europe and Asia becoming high-priority strategic targets of Allied bombing.
As should be apparent from the records we've been able so far to provide, our US Government was, in fact, well-aware of Germany's growing Coal-to-Liquid fuel capability.
Via the enclosed US Patent, it should had to have been clear to our Government that Japan, as well, was able to convert, not just Coal, but also waste gases arising from the use of Coal, into liquid fuels.