TIN CAN ONE. I
2. RESCUE WILL BE ATTEMPTED AT EARLIEST POSSIBLE TIME AND 1
IN ANY CASE NOT LATER THAN TEN REPEAT TEN DAYS FROM
RECEIPT OF THIS MESSAGE.
3. IN EVENT ATTEMPT IMPOSSIBLE OR ATTEMPT FAILS EX LAX AND
TIN CAN ONE WILL BE TERMINATED REPEAT WILL BE TERMINATED.
4. NO DISCUSSION OF THIS ORDER WILL BE ENTERTAINED.
UNQUOTE
BUD QUOTE
STATION CHIEFS LONDON AMD CAIRO WILL ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT
AND COMPREHENSION OF CANIDY MESSAGE.
STATION CHIEF CAIRO ADDITIONALLY WILL REPORT TIME AND
PLACE OP DELIVERY OF MESSAGE TO CANIDY WITH INFO COPY TO
DOMO VAN
Bruce handed the message to Colonel Stevens, and then looked at Capt.
Harrison.
"Would you please message Colonel Donovan that Colonel Stevens and myself acknowledge receipt and comprehension of this message?" he said, almost formally.
"My God!" Stevens said, when he had read the message. He extended it to Bruce.
"May I see that, please?" Charity Hoche asked.
"Oh," Stevens said, as if he had just remembered she was present.
"Sure."
When she had read it, she handed it to Fine. He frowned when he read it, but said nothing.
"You were saying, Stan," Charity said, "something about new B17s?"
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First Lieutenant Robert Jamison found First Lieutenant Ferenc Janos where he thought he would be at this time of day, in the bar, at the piano, with a drink adding yet another scar to the varnished finish of the piano, and with two of the WRAC drivers listening to him play.
"Freddy, could I see you for a moment?" Jamison asked.
"Ladies," FreddyJanos said, "duty calls."
"Not here, Janos," Jamison said.
Janos's eyebrows rose in curiosity, but he didn't say anything. He hoisted himself from the piano stool with a grunt, reached for his drink, finished it, and then squatted on his one good leg to pick up his crutches from the floor.