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at 0900 inasmuch as Shamburger was his wing man when he was killed. The time of departure from Puerto Cabezas and the approximate time of arrival over Cuba as given to the Taylor Committee and as shown in Teegen's review of Person's book are given in Table 1.* Col. Stanley Berrli, the Acting Chief of Air Division, retained bitter recollections of the miss between the Navy CAP and the brigade B-26s. In discussing this episode, Beerli was most positive about who was at fault: You're damn right I was involved••. I was there-- down at the Task Force Headquarters. Bissell was there. Arleigh Burke was there ••• Bissell had obtained the clearance for that [air] support, and there was some discussion as to what the Navy would do and what they would provide--jets, etc. It was decided that we could launch our strike. The Navy would give us air cover for one hour. O.K. and then the question is what time do you want it? Bissell turned to me and said, "Stan, what time do you want it?" I. blame him lAdmiral Arleigh Burke] for this because it was a time mixup••• He was there, and he said, "Nell, ",hat time do you want it?" I said, "Six," and then I ••• thought ••• you know there are a lot of six o'clocks around in different places in the world, and I said, "Six o'clock Zebra time." Anyway, I converted it to Zebra time ••. and I gave it to him in Zebra time ••• l remember that specifically, ~o that it would work out locally for that ti~e--0630-0730.••• I remember him going out--and I said, "Remember, Zebra time." But he was kind of in a might have been in a kind of preoccupied mood. It wasn't typewritten down on a piece of paper and given to him. Maybe that's it. He went back and said, "Be there at 0630-0730;" and they just weren't there •.•• But I blame him for that tieup, because our people were there at the time it was specified. I just think that there was the foul up--not. getting that "z" time back to the Navy. 2-/ * Table 1 fo1lows p.~. The two-and-one-half hour flight tiMe from Puerto Cabezas to Cuba probably errs on the side of a higher average airspeed (230 mph) than was operationally feasible (190- 200 mph>'. Albert C. Persons was a C-46/C-S4 pilot/instructor during the BOP ope~ation.