Interview with Jerome D. Fox, an OS2U Kingfisher gunner aboard the cruiser USS Detroit in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The interview includes Fox's personal experiences about childhood on a ranch in West Texas, enlisting in the Navy, boot camp at San Diego, California, aerial gunner school at Naval Air Station, Modesto, California, his assignment to the OS2U crew aboard the USS Detroit, patrol duty in the Aleutian Islands, bombardment of the Kurile Islands, South American patrol, his assignment to the Central Pacific Theater as an escort for the Tanker Division in refueling carrier battle groups, kamikaze attacks, operations off Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, and his postwar activities.

Base Visit Book - Maxwell Air Force Base, AL prepared for Admiral Harold W. Gehman, Jr (USN, Ret) on 26 May 2005 DoD RECOMMENDATION is to consolidate Air and Space C4ISR Research, Development and Acquisition, Test and Evaluation. DoD JUSTIFICATION is to close Mansfield-Lahm Municipal Airport Air Guard Station, OH and move four C- 130 aircraft to Maxwell AFB and four to Little Rock AFB, AR. Realign Maxwell, NAS-Meridian and Naval Station, Newport by relocating religious training and education To Ft. Jackson, SC. Realign WBAFB, Maxwell AFB and Lackland AFB by relocating air and space information systems research and development and acquisition to Hanscom. Realign Eglin AFB by relocating air and space sensors, electronic warfare & electronics and information systems to Edwards AFB