mM nm fo ~~ N Actually it was a little W ~ Marshallese boys on this box in the back of the ship?" he said, "Those are my navigators!” And [Laughter] fr said, "Oh, we have a compass and the sextant and the usual things put we don't have radar and any of the sophisticated equipment on this little ship." He said, "I couldn't just do without these boys to do the navigating." CONARD: wo Oonronw they lived, "Well, you have all the modern equipment,” Did they stick Taps ? DONALDSON: 10 11 cover on deck where No, they just used their own intuition in this case, e i2 FREMONT-SMITH: 13 DONALDSON: And their ears. Yes, and their ears and their eyes and 14 their built-in compass, 15 fectly fantastic, so fantastic that'it's worth repeating be- 16 eause it's incredible, as Wright was saying yesterday. 17 The story that he bold seered per- It seems that when he first arrived there to this 18 command, he was asked to take this ship from. Kwajalein to the 19 Atoll of Wot je. 20 of you who were out there in the war remember it was the place 21 they used to have the milk mm. 22 it every day. 23 ficer also was new, they plotted their course--just two of- 24 ficers aboard this little boat--and they plotted their course 25 and when they arrived just where they thought they should ke, 26 there was the great big Pacific Ocean. 27 and, well, they talked to the sailors a while and the sallors 28 were very reserved, of course, as sallors would be. 29 the new Exec and the new skipper and they don't want to com- 39 mit themselves. 31 again," 32 point and they were in the big Pacific Ocean. 33 fairness to them, atolls are very difficult to spot, Wotje is east of Kwajalein 200 miles. They would go out and bomb So he set out from Wotje. So they said, Som His Executive of- So they looked around This is "Well, we'd better plot it So they plotted again and they care out with this Now, in all They Stafford Warren DOE/UCLA /2 YSE.