Lehner, Philip N., 1964-1965
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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