The Palomares Incident – additional pics

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More 3973rd CDS personnel involved in search. Len Schenck on the right?

Bob Honeycutt (L)  Breaktime- Palamares, Spain  Crash Site Search.

Bob Honeycutt (L) Breaktime- Palamares, Spain Crash Site Search.

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Bob Honeycutt

Palamares, Spain    Searching through fields of growing tomatoes for fragments and debris.   (Plants and Tomatoes were later placed into containers and shipped to USA for disposal.

Palamares, Spain Searching through fields of growing tomatoes for fragments and debris. (Plants and Tomatoes were later placed into containers and shipped to USA for disposal.

tomato plants cleanup operation

Tomato plants clean up operation

Packaging waste for shipment

Packing contaminated soil into drums for disposal

Difficult terrain posed unique problems

Cranes to lift debris

Terrain

Difficult terrain posed unique problems

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Lt Jackson

Operation no dust

Operation "No Dust"

Keeping dust down Palomares

Wetting the soil to keep the dust down

comm centre

Communications Center - The sign says "Wilson's Warriors." He must have changed his mind at some point and called them "Warner's Warriors."

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Pausing from their work. Perhaps a piece of debris needed to be checked for contamination.

Soil removal

Soil removal

decontamination center

Decontamination Center

4th bomb

4th bomb

Bomb at a depth of 2500 feet

Bomb at depth of 2500 feet

Bomb lifted out of the water

Bomb being lifted out of the water

Movie screen at crash site in old Roman ruins

Movie screen at crash site in old Roman ruins

SAC News Release

SAC news release

Spanish boater witness

Spanish boater witness

us navy task force

US Navy Task Force

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Jachelski in patrol vehicle

Tent city the first 2 wks, not even a kitchen

Tent City - first two weeks, not even a kitchen

Testing area at Tent City

Area for testing for contamination

TDY orders for crash site pg 1

TDY orders for crash site

TDY orders for crash site pg 2

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Article from Air Force Magazine, 2011

Air Force magazine 2011 article

AF magazine 2011 article pg2

AF magazine 2011 article pg3

Certificate for cleanup ppl