They are strip-searched on arrival and given only a compass (which is deliberately aligned wrong), a barometer (with a fake altitude gauge printed on it), instructions to point along one exact heading, and the order to "drop into a lake when the egg-timer on th...
The plane and crew had been shot up pretty badly with the pilot sustaining the loss of one arm. Shemya was already beginning to prove its worth. Work on the airstrip eased up somewhat for the GI's. Civilian construc- tion companies moved crews in to improve on the hurried job initially ...