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Bill Tompkins was embedded in the world of secrecy as a teenager when the Navy took his personal ship models out of a Hollywood department store because they showed the classified locations of the radars and gun emplacements. He was personally present at the Battle of L.A. when a thousand rounds of ammo were fired at UFOs and one of the Nordic craft may have selected him to be their rep in the evolving aerospace race. This book is a partial autobiography about his life to the beginning of the 1970s including some of his early work for TRW. Selected by the Navy prior to completing high school to be authorized for research work he regularly visited classified Naval facilities during WWII until he was discharged in 1946. After working at North American Aviation and Northrop he was hired by Douglas Aircraft Company in 1950 and when they found out about his involvement in classified work was given a job as a to create design solutions as a draftsman with a peripheral assignment to work in a think tank. This work was partly controlled by the Navy personnel who used to work for James Forrestal?? who was allegedly assassinated because he was going to publicly reveal what he knew about UFOs. Bill Tompkins was asked to conceive sketches of mile-long Naval interplanetary craft designs. Later?? as he became involved in the conventional aspects of the Saturn Program that later became the Apollo launch vehicle?? his insight to system engineering resulted