. >> reporter: after flagg's death in 1960, kinsler helped clear out flagg's new york apartment. >> ithe window and everything was in there. everything was in place. >> reporter: but the next time he fit vitted the beloved nude had vanished. kinsler figured maybe a building worker stole it. >> i said it's probably the superintendent or an elevator operator who got his kicks out of looking at a really hot nude. and i bet you it's in somebody's apartment in brooklyn. >> that always intrigued me, because i wondered for many years had it mysteriously disappeared or had it bn stolen or was it completely lost to time. >> reporter: collector and attorney james head writes about what he calls the american illustrators of beauty. two years ago, he saw this picture in an auction house catalog. sure enough, it was the missing nude. so you did instantly recognize this picture? >> absolutely. >> reporter: so what did you think? >> i thought i would never see it. this is a mysteriously disappearing nude, and there it was. >> reporter: both head and kinsler alerted heritage auctions they might be se

an unsung hero here in houston named jack kinsler came up with this remarkable flag raid that you have the pole and a second one you can swing up and latch into a horizontal position. that is how the american flags flew on the moon. it was at the top and just slid out. so it literally they ran so late thinking of erecting a flag on the moon into getting it approved. the head of the technical services department got on a gulfstream jet here in houston and flew to the cape with the planned. there were these wonderful stories have been all through the stories of ordinary people at the front line of getting the work done. okay i want to read one more passage and then we will wrap up and take some questions. this is from near the end of the book. there is a little bit of an apollo hangover. we think of it as a spectacular performance but what have we done since. americans love space. it always provide a spark of connection and pride. during the routine they dropped the geology hammer. thus flying everywhere it was too disruptive. with the help and instructions from the mission control they

kinsler commander of the 503 regiment became so despondent that he committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart while on a date with an australian nurse. wherever the americans developed a basis the boxing matches. the outdoor theaters. there was an occasional interruptions by rain. in the forms of movies or live production. the soldiers at 43 different theaters took in 453 shows. it's amazing really. this is the picture you would have seen. the port battalions. they were miracles in new guinea. to carve out carveout these kind of bases. they required 340,000 tons of material per month. once landed they degraded from the elements. everything from blankets to medicine had to be protected, moved stored properly. by the end of 1943. they had constructed three quarters of warehouse storage space. such previously barren spaces turned into thriving basis. 50,000 shoulders. they now had 125 miles of road. and eight operational runways. i was going to get bigger at the next year also. they boasted 12 docks. 20,000 feet of a pipeline. plus scores of administration. they sprout out out of no