Base Visit Trip Report - Kulis AGS, AK - June 14, 2005

Base Visit - Commissioner Base Visit Book, Gelena Forward Operation Location, Alaska 29 July 2005

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.

Interview with John J. Clemens. The interview includes Clemens' personal experiences about childhood and early adulthood in Houston, Texas, World War II-era service in the U.S. Navy, serving aboard USS Wren in the Pacific Theater, and piloting a ship into Tokyo Bay immediately following the Japanese surrender. Clemens speaks about convoy missions across the Atlantic Ocean, the January 4, 1944 sinking of the USS Turner while moored in New York Harbor and the court of inquiry regarding the sinking, actions in the Aleutian Islands, Attu, Okinawa, and Philippine campaigns and anti-kamikaze warfare while aboard the USS Wren, and the effects that Allied bombing had on Tokyo.

Disregard Restriction Header and Footer - Fort Wainwright, AK- Impacted Sites: FORT WAINWRIGHT; FORT GREELY, AK

Base Visit Book for Elmendorf AFB, AK; Kulis, AGS, AK; Eielson AFB, AK on June 14-15, 2005

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