Transcript of an oral interview with Al Heigel. When Heigel finished high school in June, 1944, he joined the Navy at Little Rock, Arkansas and went for boot training at San Diego. He was assigned as a radar operator and reported aboard the USS Independence (CVL-22) at Pearl Harbor. Heigel describes the light carrier and its construction and features. He also speaks of the time the Independence was hit by a torpedo off Tarawa in 1943. Heigel then describes events off Okinawa: watching the USS Franklin (CV-13) being bombed off Okinawa; locating and shooting down kamikazes; describing battle stations; aircraft water landings; being in a typhoon, etc. After the war ended, the Independence served as a troop transport taking GIs back home to the US. He describes bunks in the hangar deck and arriving in Portland, Oregon. As the Independence was being prepared for the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, Heigel got off becuase he had the requisite amount of points allowing him to be discharged. He then entered the lumber business, married and raised family.

Transcript of an oral interview with Al Heigel. When Heigel finished high school in June, 1944, he joined the Navy at Little Rock, Arkansas and went for boot training at San Diego. He was assigned as a radar operator and reported aboard the USS Independence (CVL-22) at Pearl Harbor. Heigel describes the light carrier and its construction and features. He also speaks of the time the Independence was hit by a torpedo off Tarawa in 1943. Heigel then describes events off Okinawa: watching the USS Franklin (CV-13) being bombed off Okinawa; locating and shooting down kamikazes; describing battle stations; aircraft water landings; being in a typhoon, etc. After the war ended, the Independence served as a troop transport taking GIs back home to the US. He describes bunks in the hangar deck and arriving in Portland, Oregon. As the Independence was being prepared for the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, Heigel got off becuase he had the requisite amount of points allowing him to be discharged. He then entered the lumber business, married and raised family.

Interview with John Andrews, a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps from Kentwood, Louisiana. The transcript includes a list of questions regarding Andrews's training and service in World War II as a B-29 command pilot and flight instructor throughout the United States.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the death of 12-year-old Chandler Jackson on a golf course while on vacation in Kentucky. Jackson’s neighbor, Roy Deskin, is interviewed.

Final Cobra Run - Army RC Transformation Chattanooga TN

Final Cobra Run - 110 Nashville International Airport Air Guard Station, TN. 14 cobra files pertianing to the realignment of the Nashville International Airport AGS, TN.

COBRA Program - RC Transformation in Tennessee

Final Cobra Run - Army RC Transformation Ft. Campbell TN

Final Cobra Run - Army RC Transformation Kingsport TN

COBRA Program - Nashville International Airport Air Guard Station, TN

Contains notes and research (Nashville IAP AGS, TN) by Bradley McRee of the JOINT Issues Team.

Community Correspondnece - Letter from residenst of Harrison County, Texas to the BRAC Commissions regarding the 147th Fighter Wing Air National Guard at Ellington field Joint Reserve Base.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Lyle Larson, Bexar County Commissioner to Commissioner Gehman, Commissioner Hill, and Commissioner Newton expressing his gratitude towards the BRAC Commission the job they did.

Community Input - 103-06A Air Force - R - BRAC Input (Internet Search) Randolph Air Force Base - Texas - Joint Undergraduate Navigation Training - BRAC Commission FY 2005.

Disregard Restriction of Header and Footer: Army Installations and State Action Papers - Tennessee

Contains info on location, size, history, missions, major units/tenants, and population.

Contains info on location, size, history, missions, major units/tenants, and population.

DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Milan AAP Installation Familiarization Briefing (20 May 04)

DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Holston AAP Installation Familiarization Briefing (4 May 04)

Community Correspondence - Letter from concerned citizen to the BRAC Commssion regarding an newspaper article about the 118th Airlift Wing and recent operations performed by the personnel of the facility.

Community Correspondence - Letter from Charles R. Appleton of Gallatin Tennessee, to Chairman Principi regarding the 118th Airlift wing of the Tennessee Air National Guard.

Letters from Kathryn Straw and Marcia Phillips to commissioners of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. They urge the Commission to remove the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology from the list of facilities to be shut down.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen to Chairman Principi dtd 5 August 2005 regarding the realignment of the Nashville 118th Airlift Wing.

Letter from Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen Regarding his opposition to the realignment of the 118th AW in Nashville, TN