Contains media briefing book for Hill Air Force Base, UT

Hill Air Force Base, Base Visit Report

This German text recounts the author's adventures traveling the western United States over a sixteen-year period. The author describes his encounters with Native Americans and the natural environment, especially the animals he hunted. The book also includes illustrations made by the author during his travels.

Interview with Col. Gail Halvorsen, a Air Force veteran from Salt Lake City, Utah, who took part in the Berlin Airlift. Halvorsen discusses his family background, growing up, learning to fly, joining the Air Corps and flying various missions around the Atlantic during WWII, experiences in the Berlin Airlift, and relationships with Germans he affected. In appendix are various photos of and by Halvorsen from throughout his career, and letters he received from German children.

Interview with Warren D. Crumbling, Army veteran, special agent, and member of the White House Security Detail for President Lyndon B. Johnson. The interview includes Crumbling's personal experiences about education and employment before entering the military, basic training, various assignments, and being appointed to the White House Security Detail at President Lyndon B. Johnson's LBJ Ranch. Additionally, Crumbling talks about relations between the military and civilian law enforcement authorities in San Antonio during World War II, his marriage, his fourth enlistment and assignment to Kobe, Japan, various stateside assignments, his retirement from the Army, President and Mrs. Johnson, and his retirement from the Secret Service.

Interview with Army Air Forces veteran Wilbur H. Ford. The interview includes Ford's personal experiences about being a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II, training, transferring to the Army Air Force from the Army, flight training, B-17 transition training, and crew training. Ford also talks about his assignment to the 401st Bomb Group, enemy flak, the highlights of his nine missions over Germany, battle damage to his plane, the Dresden raid, returning to the States, and transition training in B-29s for transfer to the Pacific Theater.

A report on the lands of the Arid Region of the United States, including their agricultural and grazing potential as well as a statement of the rainfall of the western portion of the United States.

Commissioner's Base Visit Book - Hill AFB, UT dated 7 June 2005

Close Deseret Chemical Depot, COBRA REALIGNMENT SUMMARY REPORT, Starting Year 2006, Final Year 2010, Payback Year - Immediate

Close Deseret Chemical Depot, UT. Transfer the storage igloos and magazines to Tooele Army Depot, UT. Recommendation, Justification, Payback, Economic Impact on Communities, Community Infrastructure, Environmental Impacts,

Economic Impact of IND-0117: Close Deseret Chemical Depot, Salt Lake City, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area, Cumulative Job Change (Gain/Loss) Over Time, Employment Trend (1988-2002), Unemployment Percentage Trend (1990-2003), Per Capita Income x $1,000 (1988-2002)

DESERET CHEMICAL DEPOT, UT, Demographics, Child Care, Cost of Living, Education, Employment, Housing, Medical Providers, Safety/Crime, Transportation, Utilities

SUMMARY OF SCENARIO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, IND-0117V3 CLOSE DESERET CHEMICAL DEPOT, IMPACTS OF COSTS, Installation Environmental Profile Desert Chemical Depot, Tooele Arm Depot

Deseret Chemical Depot Justification Book

Interview with Eugene Nielsen, a Army WWII veteran and POW from Logan, Utah. Nielsen discusses his prewar assignment to Corregidor Island, the Battles of Bataan and Corregidor, capture by the Japanese, experiences in internment at Bilibid Prison, Cabanatuan, and Palawan, surviving the Palawan Massacre, and his rescue by Filipinos and American forces. Included is Nielsen's obituary of February 6, 2011.

Interview with George Fukui, a biologist from San Francisco, California. Fukui discusses his experiences as a Japanse-American during World War Two, including his family's background and their business, its closure, their forced relocation to Tanforan internment camp, the quality of life there, relocation to Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah, ranchwork there, securing a job outside the camp, continuing his higher education, and his career after the war.

Interview with Henry Stanley, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Stanley discusses growing up in the Great Depression, joining the CCC, life and work at Mount Pleasant in Utah, and camaraderie and tensions between workers. In appendix is Stanley's discharge certificate and record of service.

Interview with Gretchen Legler from Salt Lake City, Utah, and her partner Ruth Hill, from Woburn, Massachusetts, both homesteaders. Legler and Hill discuss their respective families, upbringing, their interest in animals and the environment, the influence of their families, traveling to Anatarctica, Alaska, and other places, meeting one another and developing a relationship, returning to New England and developing a farm, neighbors and the local community, and slaughtering and the ethics of meat.