Patrick D. McCaslin Interview, 11 November 2000
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| bombing the position, and when they—there was an expletive from the top, and they started describing this thing and asking if I wanted to come up and see it. | ||
| JK | Well, according to Mr. Runyan, it was quite a sight. | |
| PM | Yes, after the fact when we were talking in the debriefing, and, you know, as we were taxiing in and all that, everybody agreed it was pretty spectacular. | |
| JK | Did he describe it to you? | |
| PM | The description to me, and I don't remember if it was Brad or one of the other pilots. The description to me was this: that it was an elliptically shape—elliptical shape, kind of a cough drop-shaped thing, glowing orange with a boomerang exhaust, or boomerang shaped exhaust or whatever, an fluorescence off one end the same color, and that's all I remember of the description. | |
| JK | Well, that agrees pretty darn close with what Mr. Runyan said. Well, if I can, let me bounce some names off you. | |
| PM | OK. | |
| JK | I have James Partin P-a-r-t-i-n | |
| PM | Partin—don't remember him. | |
| JK | OK, he was one of the pilots. Now he may have the guy been undergoing... undergoing... [evaluation] | |
| PM | Could be. | |
| JK | Don Cagle? | |
| PM | Don was my AC [Aircraft Commander]. | |
| JK | I have a Captain Ritchie. | |
| PM | My memory is that he was a Major then, but maybe not. Chuck Ritchey was his name and Chuck was the Radar Navigator. | |
| JK | OK, I have you, I have Tom [struggling with pronunciation] Guidutta...? It's spelled phonetically, because I've just heard it spoken...[Thomas Goduto]. | |
| PM | Yeah, it's a strange name, and I know that's one of those names I couldn't remember. Tom was the Electronic Warfare Officer, and I believe he was a Captain too. Tom— god! you don't have a good spelling on that? |
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