Interview with Navy veteran William J. Bates including personal experiences about the Pacific Theater during World War II, youth and education, the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, flight training, leaving naval aviation and attending Midshipman's School, being assigned to APc-21, operations off the coast of New Guinea with the VII Amphibious Force, providing escort duty for LCTs during assaults along the coast of New Guinea, the sinking of APc-21 by Japanese planes off New Britain Island, recuperating in New Guinea, returning to the States and being assigned to ATR-22, transferring to fleet tug ARA-182 as commanding officer, having convoy duty in the South Pacific, riding out a typhoon, disposing of Navy equipment after the war, and returning to the States.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

COBRA Program - Navy Reserve Centers - Bangor, ME

COBRA Program - Naval Air Station Brunswick, ME

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a BRAC Commission e-mail regarding Naval Air Station Brunswick.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering national news stories about James McCord having a news conference about Watergate and the chairman of the Republican National Committee’s statement on Watergate.

Coalition Correspondence – Letter dtd 07/01/05 to Chairman Principi from Maine Tourism Association CEO Vaughn Stimson urging the Commission to keep NAS Brunswick fully operational.

Community Input for Naval Air Station Brunswick, ME dtd 16 June 2005. "An Assessment of the Pentagon's Business Case for Realignment of Naval Air Station Brunswick, ME.

Executive Correspondence - Copy of Maine Senators Snowe and Collins letter to Secretary Rumsfeld (20May05)concerning DFAS Limestone.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Maine and New Hampshire Congressional Reps and Sens to Chairman and Commissioners, and Secretary Rumsfeld.

Requesting information used to recommend the closure of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at Kittery, Maine.

Executive correspondence to Senator Olympia Snowe from Senate President Beth Edmonds and Speaker of the House John Richardson regarding the Commissioners' visit to Brunswick Naval Air Station.

Executive correspondence to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman Anthony Principi from the Congressional Staff of Maine regarding the release of the justification data for closing or realigning installations.