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

Memorandum of meeting with the Hawaii congressional delegation regarding the Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility at Pearl Harbor, HI.

DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Fort Shafter Installation Familiarization Briefings (9 April 04)

Schofield Barracks Installation Familiarization Briefing

DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Tripler AMC Installation Familiarization Briefing

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

This document describes proposals for making communities better prepared and more resilient to catastrophic natural disasters like the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2006. Methods described include warning systems, data sharing, and land use decisions.

Interview with E. C. May, a navigator in the US Air Corps during WWII. He answers questions about his time in the military overseas and returning home.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Acencion Fernandez. Fernandez, a Texas farm boy born in 1924, was drafted when he was 18 years old. He was based in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was assigned to the USS LCI-80 where he served as a loader on a 40-inch gun. At the Mariana Islands of Saipan and Tinian and at Iwo Jima, he was involved in strafing the beaches to enable Marines to land. Later his LCI landed Marines on Okinawa. He briefly mentions the presence of Navajo code talkers on the ship.

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.