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Ethan Lane, a music teacher from Marysville, plays a bugle to sound the call to assembly at Fort Casey State Park for the 9th Coast Artillery District, a living history group.

History comes to life at Fort Casey

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John McPherson from Snohomish looks out through an observation tower at Fort Casey in Coupeville.

“We do this for fun,” said Carter. “Some people go fishing, We collect old military gear and go out and wear it!”

In order to be able to give these living history tours, they have to learn this history and the time period as

well. To do this they seek out local historians and experts.

One such expert that provided them with the knowledge of Fort Casey is Steve Kobylk, a field representative for the Coast Defense

Study Group who is a certificated resident expert on Fort Ebey and Fort Casey.

His hobby is also history and volunteering to restore original features to Fort Casey.

Kobylk worked with the group to give them knowledge and specifics of the coastal defenses in place to protect the Puget Sound since the late 1890s.

The men worked to memorize details about the large guns and ammunition.

Kobylk explained the unique history of Fort Casey. It was built at a critical time when technology was rapidly changing.

Kobylk said the 10-inch guns at Fort Casey were already obsolete before

they were ready to be put into service in 1902. By the time WWII came around, there was a shortage of steel and iron. Much of the fort’s metal was scrapped for the war effot, including the five original guns Kobylk said.

He explained the two big guns that are in place now came over from the Philippines during a restoration project in the early 1960s. The guns were actually used in battle against the Japanese and still bear the scars of war on the barrels.

“I think it is fantastic,” Kobyl said. “People can see what it was really like. They do an extremely good job.”

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Self-described history preservationists, members of the 9th Coast Artillery District WWII provided up close and personal tours of the fort’s battery command station, plotting room and offered ammunition demonstrations from deep within the magazine and ammunition rooms.

The group also took over the fort’s plotting room, transforming it into a makeshift barracks using authentic bunks and bedding from early World War II. “Our goal is to preserve history and share our love of history with others,” said John McPherson, a Snohomish County resident and member of the volunteer group.

Members of the group scour the country for WWIIera artifacts and equipment at garage sales and Army

Surplus stores. The group has accumulated an impressive collection of authentic clothing, equipment and memorabilia.

The group uses the items they’ve found for authentic displays and living history events.

“Our goal is to bring the pieces of history back together again,” said McPherson.

The group started its volunteer work years ago at Fort Stevens State Park in Astoria, Ore., but branched out to other locations of historical significance, including Fort Columbia and Fort Canby state parks.

George Carter, another volunteer with the group, traveled from Carson, Wash., more than 300 miles away.

Carter said his mission is to get more people interested in the local history around them while sharing his own love and appreciation for history.

“Kids really love the guns, and the adults love the displays,” said Carter.

Carter explained many people have hobbies such as cars, trucks or boats.

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Stanwood veteran opens up about the horrors of WWII

By KARI BRAY Herald Writer

STANWOOD — For most of Raymond Lund’s adult life, he didn’t talk about the war.

He didn’t want to relive it.

The memories still are painful.

“I hate it,” the 95-year-old World War II veteran said.

About five years ago, Lund started to open up more to his family, son Dennis Lund said.

They learned that there were many times during the bloody battles on European soil when he thought he’d never make it home.

Back in Stanwood, his mom prayed for him every night. His youngest sister could hear her, and when Raymond returned, she told him of their mother’s countless pleas to God and her unwavering faith that her sons would come back to her.

“I remember the night I came home,” he said. “I opened the door and said, ‘Hi Mom, I made it.’ She looked at me and said, ‘I knew you’d be back.’ ”

He came back to Stanwood, where his parents had homesteaded and raised 10 kids.

His mother and father were Norwegian immigrants. A black and white photograph shows Raymond as a young child with his family, posed in front of a two-story house.

Though the house no longer stands, the road is named after the Lund family.

Raymond Lund was one of five brothers who served in the military. Three of them went overseas during the war.

All made it home.

Lund grew up near Stanwood and graduated from Stanwood High School.

He joined the Army in 1941 and became an aviation engineer with the Army Air Force in 1942. He served until 1946. In 1943, he went to Europe, first to England and later to France and Germany.

He was in Germany when he learned that the war was over. He doesn’t recall who told him or which city he was in, but he remembers the whooping and hollering as the news spread.

During his first year overseas, he watched German planes pass overhead on their way to London. The 922nd Aviation Engineer Regiment was hunkered down less than 10 miles from the city. From their foxholes, he and his comrades could see the big black crosses on the wings of the planes. They didn’t shoot because it would give away

Raymond Lund married Aileen Pryor, who grew up near Silvana. They’d known each other since they were kids. They were married 65 years and had two sons. She died last year.

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Raymond Lund, 95, a World War II veteran who was at the beach landing at Normandy, sits in a rocker at his home. A framed photograph of his late wife, Aileen, sits behind him. their position. It was hard to sit there without firing back, Lund said.

“I saw a lot of people get burned,” Lund said. “It was horrible. Just horrible.”

“If you drew a straight line from Germany to London, we were right in the path,” he said.

“We got bombed every night.”

His duties included dealing with the devastation after the bombs. In the morning, scouts would find where the worst of the damage was, and he was one of the engineers who would head out to attempt repairs. After each long, brutal night, “we had to get the hose and get ready to go fill in the bomb craters,” he said.

The bombs exploded with deadly heat.

The engineers also were charged with waterproofing equipment, mainly the boats that would be used to land in France. Lund was among the troops who landed on the beach in Normandy on

D-Day. He still doesn’t talk much about that part of the war, though he’s told his son some of the stories. Soldiers vomited and collapsed on the boats, felled by the sights and smells of death.

For the rest of the war, Lund was in France, Belgium and Germany. The group spent a while in Frankfurt, then Paris. They were the first ones to venture into the famous French airport, Le Bourget, after the Allies reclaimed it. Axis soldiers left behind mines in the airfield.

Lund was discharged from the Army in 1946. He turned down the opportunity to stay.

He’d had enough of war.

The family lived in Warm Beach for a while. In 1971, the Lunds moved to Hawaii, where Raymond managed a resort on Maui for about 20 years before retiring. They returned to Stanwood around 1990.

There’s a photo of Aileen on a table near the front door of Raymond’s home.

He has a comfortable couch and a recliner to sit in while he reads the newspapers and magazines stacked neatly on a shiny wood coffee table.

His mom may have known he was coming home from the war, but Lund wasn’t always so sure. During the bombings and battles, he thought he would die in Europe.

“Don’t ask me how many times” he nearly died, Lund said. “I don’t know what to say.”

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he legacies of the venerable A-6 Intruder and those who made it fly were recognized by nearly 400 people during a ceremony at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

A laser-etched granite obelisk highlighting the history and capabilities of the Grumman aircraft was presented by retired United States Navy Capt.

Larry Yarham to Doug King, the Museum of Flight’s president and chief executive officer.

Yarham is a former Intruder pilot and member of the Intruder Association.

King told the crowd during the ceremony last month it was an honor that the monument and aircraft are now included among the flight museum’s displays. He also said it was fitting that the dedication ceremony was held on Veterans Day. The memorial at the

A memorial to the venerable A-6 Intruder, once stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, was recently unveiled at the Museum of Flight in Seattle during a star-studded ceremony

Seattle museum is the fourth in a series of A-6 tributes held at aviation museums around the country.

It all started with a vision for preserving the story of the A-6 Intruder as well as those of the men and women who built it, flew it and maintained it, said Dave Williams, a retired Navy captain, former Oak Harbor Marina harbormaster and the nor thwest regional director for the Intruder Association.

Fundraising events were held to pay for the first tribute, which was placed at the National Naval Aviation

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Members of the Oak Harbor High School NJROTC present the colors during an A-6 Intruder Tribute Memorial dedication ceremony at the Museum of Flight.

Capt. Geoffrey Moore, right, commanding officer of NAS Whidbey Island, and Capt. Scott Farr, Commander, Electronic Attack Wing Pacific, sit with their wives during the ceremony.

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“The response was overwhelming,” he said. “We have plans for a total of six tribute memorials.”

Williams also told the flight museum audience about the challenges of finding a home for the latest memorial.

“We wanted to make sure this tribute stayed connected with Whidbey Island and the air station,” he explained. “We could not find a suitable place in Oak Harbor.”

If the memorial had been installed on Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, which is federal property, only those with base access would be able to see it.

Intruder Association members also discussed placing the monument with the static A-6 and EA-6B Prowler display on at the intersection of State Highway 20 and Ault Field Road, but he said that location wasn’t suitable because there’s no designated parking.

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months until after the museum’s new covered aviation pavilion was completed, he said.

The memorial is now displayed next to an A-6 Intruder dedicated to the aircraft known as Viceroy 502 and its aircrew, Lt. Roderick “Rog” Lester and Lt. Harry Mossman.

Lester and Mossman took off from the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 on Aug. 20, 1972 and were never seen or heard from again until 25 years later. A Department of Defense joint task force recovery team located the Intruder crash site and the Navy men’s remains.

Delivering the keynote speech was former Whidbey Island resident Stephen Coonts, a retired A-6 flier, Vietnam veteran and best-selling author of many novels about the aircraft, including “Flight of the Intruder,” which was later made into a motion picture 1991. He was stationed at NAS Whidbey when he was a pilot.

“This memorial is not

about the aircraft,” said Coonts, but rather it’s about the A-6 community and the people involved with it over its 34-year history.

“Finally, and most importantly, this memorial is for all the POWs, those shipmates who fell and were captured by the enemy, and those families who waited so patiently, praying as their warriors suffered,” Coonts said.

Intruder squadrons were based at NAS Whidbey from 1966-97.

Among those from Oak Harbor who attended the memorial’s unveiling were: members of Oak Harbor High School NJROTC; Rear Adm. Gary Mayes, commander, Navy Region Northwest; Rear Adm. Marcus Hitchcock, Commander, Carrier Strike Group Three; Capt.

Geoffrey Moore, commanding officer for NAS Whidbey; Capt. Scott Farr, commanding officer for Electronic Attack Wing Pacific; Oak Harbor Mayor Bob Severns; and state Sen. Barbara Bailey and her husband Butch Bailey, a retired Navy captain and former Intruder pilot.

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Facility, or NWSTF, at Boardman, Ore., where Sabin served during World War II as an aircraft plotter.

Sabin was also sent a flagflying Certificate signed by Capt. Geoffrey Moore, NAS Whidbey Island commanding officer, a photograph of the NWSTF staff hoisting and saluting this flag and a NWSTF Boardman ball cap donated by the Navy staff.

“I’m so grateful to the men and women of NAS Whidbey Island and NWSTF Boardman Range for helping to surprise my grandfather with something heartfelt for his 100th birthday,” said Sabin’s granddaughter, Dana Gordin in an email to the NAS Whidbey Island Public Affairs Office.

“The American flag, a personal and precious gift and symbol of freedom, honors

my grandfather’s service during WWII and represents all that is great about this nation and her people. My family and grandfather will be very touched!”

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irrigated farming methods in the area. The U.S. Navy took over the property from the U.S. Air Force between 1958 and 1962.

Beginning in 1941, the U.S. Army Air Corps began acquiring approximately 96,000 acres in Morrow County (later authorized by a 1943 Act of Congress) at what is now NWSTF Boardman through purchase of private land and transfer of Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management land noted the document.

Sabin trained as an aircraft plotter at Oregon Precision Bombing Range from December 1941 to January 1943 where he placed targets for bombers to practice deliveries.

During this time he met his future wife Audrey Zastrow at an Arlington, Ore., high school dance where she was a senior. He then transferred to Cambridge, England from February 1943 to February 1945 as an aircraft warning plotter with the 50th Fighter Control Squadron. In August 1945, Sabin returned stateside to married Audrey and went to carpentry school to make furniture.

The U.S. Army Air Corps used the range from 1943 to 1945 for precision aerial bombing practice. Aircraft stationed at Walla Walla Army Air Base initially used the 12-squaremile range for air-to-ground gunnery practice. At the same time, the nearby Umatilla Army Ordnance Depot used the range for the demolition of munitions and small arms testing.

The Oregon range was an ideal location for practice bombing due to its sparse population and arid land that wasn’t conducive to agriculture. The facility used other names under the U.S. Air Force — including Arlington Bombing Range and Boardman Bombing Range — before the Navy settled on the current NWTSF Boardman in association with the nearby town.

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Today, the military staff at NWSTF Boardman provides target and facilities maintenance, fire suppression and range support operations. NWSTF Boardman is managed by NAS Whidbey Island, supporting the training and readiness requirements of tenant aviation units as well as Oregon National Guard partners and DoD contracts.

NAS Whidbey Island also recently celebrated a birthday like Sabin, but only its 74th on Sept. 21 when it was commissioned in 1942. The air station was named earlier this year the best naval installation in the country upon winning the 2016 Commander in Chief ’s Annual Award for Installation Excellence.

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Veteran recalls horrors of Iwo Jima in poem

By JULIE MUHLSTEIN Herald Writer

His thoughts of war come at night. Before he can sleep, Paul Bartlett writes them down.

By day, the 89-year-old Bothell man is spare with details he shares of the Battle of Iwo Jima. Yet Bartlett, a retired teacher, revealed the horrors of battle in a tribute poem he wrote one recent night.

“Experiencing a terror in no man’s land/wondering where the next shell will land,” he wrote in a poem titled “Iwo Jima — A Remembrance, Lest We Forget.”

The poem opens with grim images of dying comrades taking their last breaths.

It was 1945, the last year of World War II, when nearly 7,000 U.S. Marines were killed and another 20,000 wounded in the fierce fight to capture Iwo Jima from Japan.

Of about 21,000 Japanese soldiers dug in to defend the Pacific island when the battle started on Feb. 19, 1945, only 216 were taken prisoner before it ended 35 days later. The rest, some 20,700 Japanese, died on Iwo Jima.

Bartlett was a teenage machine gunner in the 9th Marine Regiment, part of the Marine Corps’ Third Marine Division. He enlisted in 1944 and was serving on Guam when his division embarked as part of the landing force on Iwo Jima. After the war ended, he was transferred to the First Marine Division in China before coming home in 1946.

“I’m an old veteran,” he said. “In the Battle for Iwo Jima, I was only a 17-year-old kid. I must have had a baby face — fighting for my life.”

Bartlett grew up poor in North Dakota. His mother was separated from his father.

He and several siblings spent their earliest years in a Catholic orphanage. When he was 17, his mother went with him to the town of Cavalier to sign the papers that let him join the Marines.

“I wanted to get somewhere that I didn’t have to work as a laborer. In those little towns, that’s all there was,” Bartlett said. He rode a train to boot camp in San Diego. Within months, he shipped out to join the war effort in the Pacific.

Back in North Dakota after the war, he was helped by the GI Bill to attend Mayville State Teachers College. There, he met his future wife, Berva.

They were married in 1951,

“Iwo Jima — A Remembrance, Lest We Forget”

By Paul Bartlett With gun in hand while passing dead comrades onward to step into more death seeing those taking their last breath — Experiencing a terror in no man’s land wondering where the next shell will land — With stomach tied in a sickly knot bullets flying and trying to not get shot — Looking for the hated foe shoot them first because you know — when they’re gone the battle will end then we can all look round the bend to peace with its normal sight forget this hell and set things right. while Paul Bartlett was in Marine Corps officers training in Quantico, Virginia. He became a first lieutenant in a communications platoon and served in South America.

Eventually, he chose a civilian career in teaching.

His wife had family in British Columbia, so they settled in Everett. Berva Bartlett taught English at Everett High School for 30 years. He taught in Lake Stevens for 26 years, at Hillcrest and Mount Pilchuck elementary schools. Bartlett had also taught high school and was a coach in Minnesota.

“You became immune to all the noise,” he said.

There are the searing memories that surfaced in his poem, and a few details he does share. He recalled coming ashore on Iwo Jima in a Higgins boat, a small landing craft. “The reason they wanted that island, it had three airstrips. We had B-29s flying from Guam, and with those airstrips they wouldn’t have to ditch in the ocean. They would have a place to land,” he said.

He ate field rations and slept in a foxhole on Iwo Jima.

“Hopefully we’d still be there the next morning,” he said.

He awoke once to find his foxhole surrounded by bodies of Japanese soldiers killed in the night by fellow Marines.

Paul Bartlett, a veteran of the Iwo Jima battle, wrote a poem as a tribute to all who sacrificed.

He’ll never forget a skilled gunnery sergeant who was given a battlefield commission. “They made him a first lieutenant. He was killed the next day,” Bartlett said. “That was the way it was on that island.”

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Bartlett, who still has his Marine Corps uniform, doesn’t dwell on the war. “I have a million stories, but I’m not going to tell them,” he said.

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Bartlett saw the enemy fighters as good shots with one goal. “They weren’t there to wound us, they were there to kill us,” he said. Out on patrol, he once found a rifle that had a booby trap — explosives jammed in the barrel. “If I had fired it, it would have blown my head off,” Bartlett said.

unit. Bartlett said he was one of only three not killed or wounded on Iwo Jima.

One good memory is the voyage home. Aboard the USS Randall, an attack transport ship, Bartlett and other Marines were treated to steak dinners and ice cream. They

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“I do a lot of thinking about it now. When I wrote that tribute, I thought about the veterans and all the things that happened,” he said. “I have to write them down, or I can’t sleep. War is a horrible thing.”

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