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Lehner, P.
1964
26
Aug. 6 - Continued
On this unbelievable occurrence is worth
recording: before the movie began (about
7:30 P.M.) some of the personnel saw flares
being shot in distress sequence (3) and
watched with awe - figuring the Navy would
make the rescue they decided to go in and
watch the movie - if he was still shooting
flares at the end of the movie, they would
do something about - he was and they did -
Lt. Thurman (the Old Man) called the Navy
and explained what was happening - the
Navy replied that they had a boat out in
the area searching - at this point the
Old Man got out his binoculars, dusted
them off, brought them to his eyes, then
turned them around to make things larger
rather than smaller; it seemed that the
Navy was searching (as indicated by their
searchlight) beyond the reef; it was then
decided that the Coast Guard would go to
the rescue; Sutcliff was sent to the Signal
Building for two-way radios - the radios didn't
work - while Pond worked at fixing the radios
the flares continued to go up - finally said
the hell with it and Sutcliff returned to the