that Dai Li had faked his own death. But Dai Li was dead, and it was bad weather that did it, not the OSS. He was buried on a hillside outside Nanjing, not far from Sun Yat-sen’s mausoleum. In 1949, his remains were destroyed by the communists. A hero to some, a demon to others, Dai Li with his genius for organization had created the largest spying machine of its time, but reviews of its effectiveness are mixed." However, Jay Robert Nash wrote in Spies: A Narrative Encyclopedia of Dirty Trick and Double Dealing From Biblical Times To Today: "Tai Li was killed when his plane exploded in mid-flight, undoubtedly from a bomb planted by one of K'ang Sheng's agents." 19 March Col. George V. Holloman, an aviation-instrument inventor and early experimenter with guided missiles, was killed in a Boeing B-17G-95-DL (44-83779, piloted by James E. Parker) accident due to bad weather in Hokusekiko, Formosa, en route from China to the Philippines. Holloman had received the DFC for conducting the first instrument-only landing of an aircraft. Alamogordo Army Air Base in New Mexico was renamed Holloman AFB on 13 January 1948. The wreckage of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress en route from Hickam Field in Hawaii to Hamilton Field in California was discovered by a private pilot on a 3,820-foot ridge 15 miles southeast of Livermore, California and 25 miles northeast of San Jose. The plane was unheard from after an 02:00 radio contact, and seven crew members were killed. Capt. J. M. Clark of the 1503d Army Air Forces Base Unit at Hamilton Field, flying a C-54 over the Livermore area, reported spotting the crash site at 17:15 and identified the plane by its serial number. A ground crew from Merced Army Air Field made its way towards the wreckage. Clark said that the B-29 pilot, apparently forced down with engine trouble after losing his way near the end of the flight, missed the top of the ridge by only ten feet. The tail and scattered wreckage was on top of the ridge, with the remainder of the plane scattered down the slope on the opposite side. Pacific Division Air Transport Command said that the B-29 was one of a group that were being ferried to the mainland from an advance base in the Pacific. An ATC officer said that the bombers are brought there (Honolulu) for a "routine check"