the one who told me she heard there was a plane crash and the nurses went
down on a training mission.“8’
The testimony appeared to clearly identify by name, rank, position,
physical attributesand by a distinctive nickname, “Slatts,” another nurse present
at the hospital in July 1947. But a review of the morning reports of the Roswell
AAF hospital for July 1947 did not contain the name of a nurse,or anyone else,
named Wilsonx3 The only female captain assignedto the Roswell AAF Hospital
in July 1947 was the Chief Nurse Capt. Joyce Goddard.“” Goddard, who was
5’6” tall, was transferredfi-om Roswell AAF to Korea on August 21, 1947.8’
Therefore, according to Dennis’ recollection of events, this review of
the morning reports indicated that there were two missing nurses, not one-
“Lieutenant Naomi Selff’ and “Captain ‘Slatts’ Wilson.” Further scrutiny of
personnel records of individuals assigned to the Roswell AAF/Walker AFB
hospital indicated that Dennis’recollections of eventswere apparently inaccurate.
Examination of the August 1947 morning reports did not list a nurse
named Wilson, but they did list a nurse named Slattery.86Captain Lucille
C. Slattery, who retired as a Lieutenant Colonel and is now deceased, was
reassignedfrom Ft. George Wright, Wash. to Roswell AAF on August 7, 1947.“’
Fig. 6. Lt. Cal. Lucille C.
Slattery, the only Air Force
nurse ever known as Watts,”
served as a captain at the
Rowe11 AAF/Walker AFB
hospital from August 1947 to
September 1950. Records
indicate that Slattery did not
arrive at Roswell AAF until
one month afm- the “Rowe,,
Incident” in direct
contradi&n to statements
made by the sole witness to
this account.
(U.S. Air FOKL. photoj
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