Q: Did you see any airplanes when you were back at the site?
A: Yes, there was airplanes in the sky but nobody thought much about. You know, I didn’t think anything about it. I was used to airplanes being in the sky, having been raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, the home of the Norden bombsight, you know, the sky was always full of military aircraft at night.
And when we get back on to the highway, there’s observation aircraft, you know, high winged aircraft, and there’s one, of what I know now to be a C-47 setting there. And how we didn’t hear that land is beyond me and how he landed—well, of course, I guess you could land it if you’re a good pilot out there as there were no poles or anything.
And it was—they had torn the fence down on the north side of the highway and all this equipment was setting back up there. The plane was up there and they were taking stuff out of the plane. There was military ambulances and there were trucks with—like wreckers, cranes on them. And there was tankers, like maybe had fuel or water in them. There was just—everywhere you looked there was military.
Q: A major recovery operation?
A: Yes, it looked like an invasion force. It really did.
And they were all wearing these light khaki uniforms. They didn’t look like, you know, olive drabs. They were light khaki and they all had the same patch over their—that kind of blue funny patch with the circles on it, was on his shoulder.
And a lot...
Q: Do you have a clue as to where they came from? Did your brother or your uncle?
A: No. I don’t know where they came from. No, I don’t think anybody ever ascertained that.