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119 was when the nurse stepped out of the room where she had been assisting two doctors on the bodies, to get some air, that she had run into Dennis. She explained that even the doctors were getting sick, and that the smell was so bad they had to turn off the air conditioning to keep it from spreading through- out the hospital. Soon, they gave up trying to work under such conditions and completed the preparation of the bodies in a hangar. After describing the strange events to Dennis, the nurse appeared to be on the verge of collapse from the emotional trauma, so he drove her back to her barracks. He never saw her again. Attempts to get in touch with her were met with ob- struction. He was told she was away at a seminar, then that she had been transferred to England without even getting in touch with him. His first letter was answered with a cryptic promise from her to explain everything at a later date. His second letter was returned, stamped Deceased. Efforts to trace the nurse have been unsuccessful. There is no file on her in the permanent military records office where all persons who have died while in service are supposed to be recorded. There is no evidence that anyone by her name served as an army nurse. Following a suggestion that she might have been killed in a military plane crash in England or Europe, a search was made of the newspaper Stars and Stripes as well as official records. If such a crash ever occurred, it has been wiped from the records. A few weeks after the incident at the hospital, Glenn Dennis heard from his father: "What the hell'd you get into? What kind of trouble are you in?" I said, "I'm not in any trouble." And he said, "The hell you're not! The sheriff [an old friend of the elder Dennis] said that base personnel have been in and they want to know all about your background!" But there has never been any indication that the military did anything more about the uninvited mortician who got so close to the bodies. Dennis was a civilian who worked for a firm having a government contract, and was subject to military regulations only when he was on the airbase or on a military assignment such as an airplane RETRIEVAL AND SHIPMENT