SESSION Il 53 WARREN: LANGHAM: Yes. Under remote control these B-17s had been flown through the bomb cloud. They were not destroyed but were s'ightly radioactive. The colonel wanted to take the remote control cquipment out and use the 1-17s to fly his crew back to Honolulu. He asked Staff to send a man over to clear the planes as radiologically safe. Staff sent over two people and before the monitor would get back, this man would be on the radio again asking Staff for a decision, Dr, Warren finally came tc me and said, "I don't know what's happening with that guy. I sent two men over and he's still bothering me. Will you go over and find out what's bothering him and get this thing straightened cut?" I went, and as I came down the ramp at Eniwetok, standing at the bottom of the stairs was the young colone!} who looked about 25 years old; he wasn't as old as [by 10 years or so, When I came down the stairs, these were his words, “Are you that radiological man’ " When I said I was, he pointed to the B-17s and continued with, "Well, sonny, they're there, Don't give me any of this “rap about milliroentgens, Do fly them home, or do I push them in the ocean?" The highest readings were in the cockpit where there were several radium diais and on the engine intake and exhaust manifolds. I came back to the colonel and, in my most efficient manner, announced, "Fly them home." With that he said, "Come with me, We're closing out the club."' I stayed there four days and wasn't sober a minute! [Laughter] It never cost me a dime! Here is a specialist, good at his job. So you've got a psycnological conflict right here that, I'm sure, stems back to the ego and the fact that the man doing the job satisfiee that ego by filling it well. FREMONT-SMITH: the club! [Li-ughter] LANGHAM: WARREN: long gone! And you satisfy yours and therefore went to That's right. After 20 years I've got an «xplanation why he was so [Laughter] This is why [ made such a tremendous effort to save the Independence. The Navy had towed her to Mare Island. She was seriously contaminated by the underwater blast, The Navy