September of 1958 saw Sheridan gathering a complete survey team at the Kufra Oasis. Sheridan based his operation there, relying supplies flown in by Silver City Airways every six weeks. Another purpose of these flights was to ferry personnel back to civilization for their much-needed breaks from field work.
It was on one of these flights, that Sheridan asked the pilot-one Captain McMurchy (Honey was navigating, and Colvin was handling the radio)-to fly to the coordinates provided to Sheridan by Hellewell. McMurchy obliged, and the crashed Liberator appeared again. This was the second time that Sheridan had seen the B-24 (as it was Honey's; Colvin had seen it three times), and he resolved to find a way to reach it on the ground.
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