Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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River, which should ::>e a few miles to the east
of the Salton Sea.
There was a nice big bend
in the ColoraJr> River .
Unfortunately, the
Colorado , although it is a reasonably good
sized body of water- ..i'€ just plain do(-)Sn ' t
show up that w-all.
It was a little difficult
to see , but I finallJ pi~ked it up .
I saw
the bend in the river.
The river doesn ' t
actually go through the town of YumA., so I
started looking for Yuma, and I d:id w:1nder
aro~d a little bit before I finallJ found the
town.
Then
I
was unable to find the airfield
within the tow~1.
When I was just a::>out d.'..::ectly
over the a.i.rfi8ld , I picked it up.
Here is
where I think the photog::-aph wo~;ld have been a
lot of help, because the mH.p t.h:it I had just
showed a yellow bl,)b indicating the city with
a circle to indic~.te where the airfield ws.13 .
It sho,1ed the airfield to be to the s,>t! ~h :Jf
the town.
What I was looking at was a 1 ,rge
group of buildings , the to,..,.,, :_i.;self.
Then
as I went to the south , I saw even more
buildings and I wasn ' t sure whether the airfield
was south of tha: built-up area.
As it turned
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