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116 me that these bodies [had] laid out in the middle of July, in the middle of the prairie, I mean that body's going to be as dark as your [blue] blazer, there, and it's going to be in bad shape. I was the one who suggested [using] dry ice ... I'd done that a time Ae tern or two. I talked to them four or five times in the afternoon. They would keep calling back and asking me different questions in- volving the body. What they were really after was how to move those bodies. They didn't give me any indication they even had the bodies, or where they were. But they kept talking about these bodies, and I said, "What do the bodies look like?" And they said, "I don't know, but I'll tell you one thing: This happened some time ago." The only thing that was mentioned was that they were exposed to the elements for several days. I understand these bodies weren't in the same location as where they found some of the others. They said the bodies weren't in the vehicle itself; the bodies were separated by two or three miles from it. They talked about three different bodies: two of them mangled, one that was in pretty good shape. Later that day—around 6:00 or 7:00 P.M.—Dennis took a slightly injured GI accident victim to the base infirmary, which was in the same building as the hospital and the mortu- ary. He walked the airman inside and then drove around to the back of the building to see a pretty young Army Air Forces nurse he had recently gotten to know. He parked by the ramp as usual, next to several old-style, square military ambulances of World War II vintage. That was when things began to get sticky. There were two MPs standing right there, and I got out and started to go in. I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did, if I hadn't parked in the Emergency area. They probably thought I was coming after somebody. The doors were open to the military ambulances and that's where some wreckage was, and there was an MP on each side. I saw all this wreckage. I don't know what it was, but I knew there was something going on, and that's when I first got an inclination that some- thing was happening. What was so curious about it, was that in two of those ambulances was a deal that looked like [the bottom] CRASH AT CORONA