The Truculent Turtle, By G.P. McGinnis

"In 1946 I was assigned to the office of the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. James Forrestal. The work involved any radio engineering tasks that might occur, and included portions of the Bikini Island atomic tests. One morning in late September Mr. Forrestal called me to his office and asked if I could install a radio broadcast studio in a navy aircraft. After learning some of the details I assured him it could be done. He told me to have it ready in two days.

Those were two pretty hectic days. I was assigned an aircraft, a pilot, and one technician, at Patuxent River Naval Air Station. After a grueling 18 hours the technician and I had the makeshift studio completed and made a test flight over southern Maryland. When we reached altitude I contacted the RCA radio station in New Jersey where facilities were available to patch our transmissions into the NBC radio network in New York City. The test was perfect and I chatted with the RCA operator for about one-half hour".