Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/01/05 to Chairman Principi from Michael Griffin, Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), expressing concern with DoD’s recommendation to close the Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant and how the repair, maintenance, and operations of the former installation by NASA would be an undue burden (NASA has no budget identified for this).

Interview with Jerell E. Crow. He entered the Coast Guard in 1940 and trained in Florida and New York City. He served aboard a Landing Ship, Tank (LST) when those ships were first introduced. He traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Neville Island Shipyard operated by the Dravo Corporation as part of a crew that brought an LST down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. From there, the crew practiced operations at Biloxi, Mississippi. Eventually, Crow travelled to San Diego aboard the LST through the Panama Canal. From there, he went to Guadalcanal and unloaded tanks. Eventually, his ship was hit at Saipan and he was wounded. He also served aboard an LST during the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Afterwards, Crow's LST was present in Tokyo Bay for the surrender. He visited Hiroshima while on occupation duty after the atomic bomb was dropped. Eventually, his LST made its way back to San Francisco where he was discharged.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.