Community Input - 2004 Report to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission prepared by NAS Brunswick Task Force Chamber of Commerce of the Bath/Brunswick Region

Base Visit Trip Report - Naval Air Station Brunswick - July 26, 2005

Contains Base Visit Report by Navy Team Analyst Hal Tickle for the second trip to NAS Brunswick, ME

Base Visit Book for Naval Shipyard Portsmouth Kittery, ME

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.

Base Visit Report - Report for visit to Navy/MC - Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine conducted by Chairman Principi, commissioner James Bilbray, Philip Coyle and Lloyd Newton.

Commissioner's Base Briefing Book dated 2 June 2005

Navy Reserve Centers - Bangor, ME, Economic Impact Report (Disregard Restriction Header and Footer)

Navy Reserve Centers - Bangor, ME, Summary of Scenario Environmental Impacts (Disregard Restriction Header and Footer)

Navy Reserve Centers - Bangor, ME (Disregard Restriction Header and Footer)

Navy Reserve Centers - Bangor, ME, Recommendation for Closure Navy Reserve Centers

Navy Reserve Centers - Bangor, ME, COBRA Realignment Summary Report

RECOMMENDATION FOR REALIGNMENT NAVAL AIR STATION, BRUNSWICK, MAINE (Disregard Restriction Header and Footer)

Naval Air Station Brunswick, ME, Summary of Scenario Environmental Impacts (Disregard Restriction Header and Footer)

Naval Air Station Brunswick, ME, COBRA Realignment Summary Report

Naval Air Station Brunswick, ME, Recommendation for Realignment Naval Air Station, Brunswick, ME (Disregard Restriction Header and Footer)

Naval Air Station Brunswick, ME

Naval Air Station Brunswick, ME, Economic Impact Report

Disregard Restriction Header and Footer – Naval Air Station Brunswick, ME – Impacted Sites: NAS_BRUNSWICK_ME, ME; NAS_JACKSONVILLE_FL, FL

Disregard Restriction Header and Footer – Navy Reserve Centers - Bangor, ME – Impacted Sites: NAVRESCEN_BANGOR_ME, ME

The personal diary of Sigismund Koperniak, a Navy veteran, detailing his experiences aboard the destroyer USS Spence during World War II. Launching of the Spence and sea trials off Portland, Maine, January, 1943; shakedown cruise to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, February, 1943; escort duty in the Atlantic and Caribbean, March, 1943; convoy duty in the Casablanca, French Morocco, area, April-May, 1943; passage through the Panama Canal, June, 1943; escort duty for the carriers Princeton and Belleau Wood en route to Baker Island, September, 1943; attachment to Destroyer Division 23 in the Solomon Islands, September, 1943; patrols off Kolombangara and Vella Lavella Islands; interdiction of Japanese shipping and the Spence's role in sinking of twenty barges off of Vella Lavella; bombardment of Buka-Bonis airfields, November 1, 1943; Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, November 2, 1943; support for landings on Bougainville, November 3, 1943; capture of a Japanese sailor; continued attacks by Japanese aircraft; gun battles with Japanese cruisers and destroyers in the Buka-Rabaul route, November 24, 1943; shore bombardments of Tiaraka, Bougainville, Kavieng, and New Ireland, January-February, 1944; shore bombardment of Emirau, Aitape, Humboldt Bay, and Caroline Islands, March 1-24, 1944; shore bombardment during the invasions of the Marianas Islands, June 19-27, …