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104 where we was goin’. [His 4x5 Speed Graphic press camera was on the plane, and after a few hours' flight, they arrived at Roswell.] We got in a staff car with some of the gear they had brought along with us in trucks, and we headed out. .. about an hour and a half . we was headin’ north. We got out there [one of the three crash sites in the Corona area] and there was a helluva lot of people out there, in a closed tent. You couldn't hardly see anything inside the tent. They said, "Set your camera up to take a picture fifteen feet away." A. K. got in a truck and headed out to where they was pickin' up pieces. All kinds of brass runnin’ around. And they was tellin’ us what to do: Shoot this, shoot that! There was an officer in charge. He met us out there and he'd go into the tent and he'd come back and tell us, "OK." He'd stand there right besides us and [say], "OK, take this picture!" WL aw. ween Lae LO on rs ae ee 4 0 Le There was four bodies I could see when the flash went off, but you was almost blind because it was a beautiful day .. . sunny. You'd go in this tent, which was awful dark. That's all I was takin': bodies. These bodies was under a canvas, and they'd open it up and you'd take a picture, flip out your flashbulb, put another one in [take another picture] and give him the film holder (each holder held two sheets of four-by-five inch cut film) and then you ween kde th eek ek went to the next spot. I guess there was ten to twelve officers, and when I got ready to go in, they'd all come out. The tent was about twenty by thirty foot. The bodies looked like they was lyin' on a tarp. One guy did all the instructions. He'd take a flashlight and he'd come down there: "See this flashlight?" Yes, sir! "You're in focus with it?" Yes, sir! "Take a picture of this." He'd take the flashlight away. We just moved around in a circle, takin’ pictures. Seemed to me [the bodies] were all just about identical. Dark-complected. I remem- ber they was thin, and it looked like they had too big of a head. I took thirty shots ... I think I had about fifteen [film] holders. It smelled funny in there. - A. K. came back in a truck that was loaded down with debris. A lot of pieces stickin' out that wasn't there when they took off. We got debriefed on the way back to the airport [Roswell Army Air Field]. About four the next morning, they woke us, they took us to the mess hall, we ate, we got back on the B-25 and headed back. When we got back to Anacostia we got debriefed some CRASH AT CORONA