Hackman, C. Douglas, 1964-1965, 1967
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Hickam C.D. 1965 January 3 January 12 Honolulu Up at 7a.m. and had breakfast with the guys. Took Binion and Norman out to Hickam AFB so they could complete arrangements for their flight to Sand Island tomorrow morning. This took until 10:30. We then drove to the Pan Am airline freight terminal to mail a truck of bird skins back to D.C. which took another hour. Returned to the hotel for lunch and then headed out to Klyrie to try and locate about 15,000 #3 barbs. Binion wanted to take to Sand Island but couldn't find all of them. Returned to the hotel and picked Max up and then headed for the Ala Moana shopping center to pick up some more items for Binion and for the ATF. Returned to the hotel around 3:15 and called it a day. Yesterday on the way back to the hotel from the shopping center the car's trailer brakes started acting funny with the pedal going all the way to the floor. I took the car over to National and they said I'd have to swap cars because the brake line had broken. So I got another '65 Falcon, this one with 29,26 miles on the speedometer. January 13 Honolulu Binion and Norman left the hotel at 5am for their flight up to Sand Island. No more distractions or chores to do for others for a few days so we can devote all our efforts toward ATF preparations. Went out to the ship this morning to check