The good captain was flown to the small town of Wendover UT/NV to a Days Inn. There is a small AF Reserve field there. It was, at the time in the middle of nowhere. It has some nicer casinos there now [and of course Bonneville just across the Interstate].
His party had started in Dayton Ohio 12 or so hours earlier. He had no idea he was on a C141 for a few hours.