Interview with Mary Schandua, a riveter for the Boeing Company during World War II. Florence Reeves also participates in the interview. She began working for the Boeing Company as a riveter in Seattle after she married her husband John, who was in the service. She assembled wing sections on aircraft.

Base Visit Report - BRAC Commission base visit report for McChord AFB, Washington, 25 May 2005. Base visited by the Honorable Philip Coyle and the Honorable James H. Bilbray, Carol Schmidt, and Ken Small.

Report Submitted to Commission - Letter from Washington Rep Cathy Morris to Commission - Presenting Report on Fairchild AFB.

Executive Correspondence - Kitsap County (Washington) Board of Commissioners Study presented to the Commission.

By this memorandum, I appoint Mr. Steve Rogers, SAF/GCN, as a member of the Base Closure Executive Group (BCEG) in support of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure activity This appointment is effective immediately. It is imperative that members attend all BCEG deliberative meetings. If for some extremely urgent reason you are unable to attend, one of the BCEG chairmen mrist approve alternate attendees.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Arwin Bowden. He begins by discussing his training in San Diego and New Zealand before the Battle of Tarawa. He describes being wounded in the battle, the casualties he saw and being shipped back to Pearl Harbor for treatment, then joining the battle of Saipan. He ancedotes about Japanese killing themselves rather than surrendering, eating food from a garden watered from rainwater running down from outhouses, the wages he made and the time he had leave.