Community Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/10/2005 to Chairman Principi from Mary Alvarado, Heather Parsons, and Nyla Moore expressing their support for China Lake.

Base Input - Navy Broadway Complex San Diego - Commander Navy Region Southwest Presentation - August 5, 2005

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/8/2005 to Chairman Principi from Mike Woiwode, ARINC, President of SDMAC, expressing his support for the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, CA and the Broadway Complex.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/12/2005 to Craig Hall from Peter Bassett attaching two letters the City of Sunnyvale has developed regarding Onizuka as well as the staff report and minutes in which the City Council decided not to challenge the recommendation that Onizuka be closed.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/11/2005 to Chairman Principi from Joanna Rummer, Superintendent of the Sierra Sands Unified School District in Ridgecrest, CA expressing her support for the Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/8/2005 to Chairman Principi from Ray Watson, Chairman Kern County Board of Supervisors, expressing his support to create a Naval Integrated Weapons Center of Excellence at the Naval Air Warefare Center, Weapons Center Division at China Lake, and the relocation of Sensors, Electronic Warfare and Electronics Research Development Acquisition Testing and Evaluation from Mugu to China Lake.

Letter from an individual regarding Los Angeles Air Force Base

Community Correspondence - 15 letters from individuals expressing their concern about the China Lake Recommendation

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Assemblyman John Laird writing expressing support of the three military installations in Monterey CA currently under review by the BRAC; NPS, DLI, and POM

Report from Betty Jane Williams relaying news and events within WASP Region 3. She discusses Janet Hargrave's memorial service, the recent discovery of artifacts at Marie Robinson's crash site, a new large-format film about fighter pilots, and the Women Military Aviators conference.

Interview with Bruce Elliot, a Navy veteran and POW from Montezuma, Kansas. Elliot discusses his family, joining the Navy and volunteering for Asiatic service, the start of war and the bombing of Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, retreat to Corregidor, capture by the Japanese, escaping internment on Palawan and joining Moro guerillas, sabotage, linking up with Australian forces, evacuation to Australia and returning to the United States, becoming a deepsea diver, and Korean War service. In appendix are a photo of Elliot, a map of the Philippines, two photos of a POW camp on Palawan, and a photo of three of his comrades.

COBRA Program - March Air Reserve Base, CA

COBRA Program - Onizuka Air Force Station, CA

Interview with Raymond Barajas, an infantry veteran of the U.S. Army who was discharged after a training accident in 1943. The transcript includes a list of questions, which focus on Barajas's time in training, his subsequent injury, and impressions of his time in the service and war in general.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dated 16 June, 2005 to Chairman Principi from Representative Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (25th, CA) requesting that Commissioner Skinner and RA Chief Frank Cirillo join Commissioner Bilbray on July 11-12 to tour the facility.

Executive Correspondence – Letter to Chairman Principi from CA Representative George Radonovich requesting an opportunity for his staff and John Maniatakis to meet with the appropriate Commission staff to discuss their concerns over DoD’s recommendation to close Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant. Mr. Maniatakis is the Executive Vice-President of NI Industries, the contractor managing the plant.

This report is one of a series that profiles the emergency management and homeland security statutory authorities of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and three territories (American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Each profile identifies the more significant elements of state statutes, generally as codified. This report focuses on the state of California.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Reas. Reas grew up in Indiana and Ohio and enlisted in the Navy in 1938. After training, he boarded the USS Houston (CA-30) at Charleston, South Carolina. He was assigned to the aviation unit. On February 28, 1942, he survived the bombing and sinking of the ship. He and other survivors in life rafts were picked up by the Japanese the next day and taken to Java as a prisoner of war. He was taken to a ship and then back to an island, where he met survivors of the Australian ship HMAS Perth (D29). They were moved from Serang to Batavia. He was told to record the POW's occupations and those idenitified as skilled were sent to Japan. Inspired by this, he kept a detailed and complete list of the survivors that he kept hidden. From Java, the survivors are put on a cargo ship to Singapore. Then they went to Pynang by train. He then boarded another ship to Burma. Allied forces bombed a ship next to Reas. He describes living in bamboo huts while building the railroad. During one of the routine abuses in …

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Trenton Fowler. Fowler grew up in Corpus Christi and enlisted into the Marine Corps in 1943. Once he finished training, he was assigned to the 4th Marine Raider Battalion and shipped out on the French transport ship Rochambeau to New Caledonia. From there he went to Guadalcanal for training and then to the Emirau, Guam, and Okinawa campaigns, with stops at Guadalcanal in between each campaign. Fowler discusses the pros and cons of the Browning Automatic Rifle versus the M-1 Garand. He tells of the change of his unit's name from the 4th Battalion Raiders to the 6th Marine Division, before he went to Okinawa. He relates the experience of finding out his brother, a fellow Marine, had died at Iwo Jima.