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The Daily Sun San Bernadino, Calif By HARRY J. STATHOS led the curtain of secrecy I shrouding the weeks - long imassive sea and ground search I operations for a missing hydroInlander of Task Force 65, told I newsmen that 120 U.S. Navy I frogmen and divers, three mIdersea search craft and 15 war- [that was lost in the crash of a American and foreign newsImen, photographers and televiIsion crews were invited by [Guest for the first time to see [the 51- foot undersea craft, mersibles, Alvin and Cubmarine, in action off the coast of Later, Maj. Gen. Delmar Wil son, commander of the 16th Air Force at the Torrejon Air Base near Madrid, briefed newsmen on the status of the ground search. He also gave a vivid description of that day, 51 days ago, when the Strategic Air Command bomber with four thermonuclear weapons on board collided with a KC135 jet tank er during a re-fueling. operation 30,000 feet over the southeast coast of Spain. . Wilson said he was informed at 10:25 a.m, Jan. 17, that one of two B52s being refueled by two KC135 jet tankers had an engine on fire. Five minutes later he was notified that thel bomber was engulfed in flames | and was going into a spin. rescued by fishermen at sea.J The navigator and another air-j man also bailed out safely. TheJ three other B52 crewmen andj crashed near this village" Wilson said three of the| bombs were recovered, but the[ fourth one was lost. The TNT| detonators of two of the weap ons exploded, spilling radioac tive material over a wide area. However, the, general said “all checks by 30 American sci entists and technicians show: there, is no danger from radia Wilson indicated that the land search was nearing completion. As many as 800 men have been involved in the land search, but now only 200 men were scour ing the countryside for the Ibomb. He said the main job of finding all the wreckage on land and disposing of it had The general said 265.7 acres of. farmland had been made ploughing and the removal of| topsoil. AH of the quarantined) farming land has been returned to the villagers in this area, Informed sources said the tail- [bomb had been found near the [missing weapon fell into the [War II flyer who was the first [carrier pilot to sink a Japanese | ship after Pearl Harbor, said [aboard his command ship, the ton, that the sea search was being extended into deeper wa “I do not expect this to b< a short and quick operation,’ Guest said. “We may be here for a considerable period before we complete the operation.” The admiral said the under water search was made more difficult because of the rugged underwater terrain of moun tains, ravines and valleys, com parable to the land behind Pal