Executive Correspondence – Letter dated 07/18/2005 to Chairman Principi from Linda Lingle (Gov HI) expressing her support to maintain Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard as an active shipyard. This material is in reference to the Adds Hearing in Washington DC on 07/18/2005

Executive Correspondence - Letters dated 20 July 2005 from Neil Abercrombie to Commissioners Hill, Bilbray, Hansen, and Skinner thanking them for their recognition of Pearl Harbor's strategic importance to the United States.

Final Cobra Run - Army RC Transformation Keaukaha HI

COBRA Program - RC Transformation in Hawaii (AFRC Keaukaha HI)

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

Community Correspondence - Letter from William W. Paty to Commissioner Thoams T. Hill regarding Pearl Harbor shipyard.

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

Community Correspondence - Letter opposing the recommendation to close the Human Resources Service Center in Hawaii

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Hawaii Senator Daniel K. Akaka thanking the Commission for their support of the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard during deliberations of the BRAC commission.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Hawaii Senator Daniel K. Akaka responding to the BRAC Commission's 1 July request for clarification pertaining to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's recommendation to close Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

Executive Correspondence - To Congressman Case

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

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

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.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from the Office of the county Clerk of Kauai to Chairman Anthony J. Principi regarding the counties support for keeping Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard operational.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from retired Admiral Ronald J. Hays to Chairman Anthony J. Principi regarding his concern for the DoD recommendation for Pearl Harbor Naval Ship Yard.

The following document presents results of field studies of the endangered Hawaiian monk seal conducted in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands during 2002. These studies provide information to evaluate the status and trends of monk seal subpopulations; natural history traits such as survival, reproduction, growth, behavior, and feeding habits; and the success of various activities designed to facilitate population growth.

This report documents a series of steps taken at the National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center in response to the Order issued by Chief U.S. District Court Judge David Alan Ezra, District of Hawaii, in the case of CMC et al. versus NMFS et al.; CIVIL BO. 99-00152; dated November 23, 1999, to complete an analysis of the temporal and spatial distribution of interactions between Hawaii-based longline vessels and sea turtles to determine time and area closures that would provide the greatest benefit to the turtles.

Interview with James William "Bill" Harrison, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He explains how he joined the navy in San Diego without going to boot camp. He worked on an oil tanker that shipped out to Pearl Harbor a month after the attack there and transported fuel out of San Diego to various ships at sea. He was then transfered to Admiral Nimitz's public relations department. There he and two others wrote stories about the action in the Pacific theater, particularly about the Battle of Midway. They also contributed to a radio show and worked with the national press corps. He then worked at the Naval Air Station in Seattle before traveling to Hilo, Hawaii to meet with soldiers who had returned from Tarawa. In Texas, he attended officer training school and college at Southwestern University. After the war ended, he studied at the University of Texas and University of Oklahoma for law school. He recalls an incident in which his office released a story about a cat that had kittens on board a cruiser; they reported this good news from the Pacific prior to the Battle of Midway. He also met Admirals Nimitz …

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.

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.