And then we also had all the men jumping back onto the planes and they got pretty well bogged down. And we had a contingency plan which was unbelievable where lighter, faster aircraft came in and they took them out. We blew up the old planes. We blew them up to smithereens because we had equipment on the planes that frankly we'd like to take, but I don't think it was worthwhile spending another four hours there taking it off. So we didn't want anybody to have. We have the best, best equipment anywhere in the world. We didn't want anybody examining our anti aircraft and other equipment. (08:42–08:55)
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