Good day John.
I’m aware that there a whole bunch of issues around the war, most of which do not involve buckets 
Most of which are likely to be unquantifiable.
An ad hoc adjustment to this short period based on minimising the disruption allows frequency analysis of whole record and assessment of the effects of HadSST3 which was the point of this study.
Over the weekend, I have replied to a number of the points you raised, starting here.
http://judithcurry.com/2012/03/15/on-the-adjustments-to-the-hadsst3-data-set-2/#comment-186075