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- OBIT | Walter Wolfe | WWII ► 9 Dec 2014
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Retired Chief Master Sgt. Charles E. Lucas, representing Delaware, the District of Columbia and Maryland, listens to one of the many briefings during the 2014 Air Force Retiree Council meeting. Comprised of the two cochairmen and 15 members representing retirees by geographical areas in the United States and overseas, the council gathers annually at the Air Force Personnel Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas to discuss retiree issues. Upon conclusion report the council's findings directly to the chief of staff. Among the issues discussed by the council were the following: Maintaining the Commissary benefit. Continued support for printing and mailing of the Afterburner. Lowering the age (currently 75) of granting indefinite identification cards for spouses. Enhanced support for Defense Finance and Accounting retired and annuity pay customers, including promoting myPay accounts for self-service. Continuing Retiree Activities Office support at the base level -- both financial and administrative – and the growing need for more volunteers. Support for legislative issues, specifically eliminating offset between the Survivor Benefit Plan and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation; paid-up SBP premiums for retirees at age 67 versus 70; and full pay for the month that a retiree dies. Concerns about rising TRICARE costs and reduced Medicare/TRICARE for Life reimbursement. The co-chairs will work with the agencies related to the issues and report the findings and proposed resolutions to Welsh in September. They will also brief the chief of staff on the vital role retirees who are “still serving” play in saving mil-lions of dollars in personnel costs by volunteering at local bases. Despite the fiscal realities that cancelled last year’s meeting, the co-chairs were able to meet with Welsh when he visited AFPC on 11 SEP. Polk, who lives in San Antonio, met with him personally, while McKinley was able to join in via teleconference from Oklahoma. During that meeting, Welsh assured the co-chairs that he strongly supports the retiree community and appreciates their service. “General Welsh expressed his sincere gratitude for the tireless efforts of our Air Force retiree community,” Polk said. “He acknowledged and boasted about the countless hours retirees volunteer each year in support of our bases.” Retiree Activities Offices stepped into the spotlight this year when their support by the installation commander became part of the 2014 Air Force Inspector General’s inspection checklist. “General Welsh considers Air Force retirees a key component of our force,” said McKinley. [Source: Afterburner Vol. 56, No. 1 | Editor Tammy Cournoyer | Spring/Summer 2014 ++] ******************************** Awards Replacement ► Use SF 180, Request Pertaining To Military Records The military recognizes that military medals are often a cherished part of family history and makes replacement medals, decorations, and awards available to veterans or their next of kin if the veteran is no longer living or able to make the request on his or her own behalf. Replacement medals, decorations and awards should be requested on SF 180, Request Pertaining to Military Records. This form can be downloaded from http://www.va.gov/vaforms . Each request should be filled out neatly, and should include the veteran‘s branch of service, social security number, dates of service, and it should be signed by the veteran or the next of kin if the veteran is incapacitated or deceased. Where to forward it to is indicated by an address code on the back of the SF 180. In general, requests made by the veteran are fulfilled at no cost. This includes requests made by family members who have the signed authorization of the veteran. There may be an associated fee for requests made by next of kin, especially if the request involves archival records (records are considered archival records 62 years after the veteran‘s date of separation from military service). [Source: RAO Seal Beach CA | John Ryan | Jan, 01, 2015 ++] ******************************** OBIT | Walter Wolfe | WWII ► 9 Dec 2014 Robert Wolfe, who for more than three decades was a chief custodian and scholar of the millions of German documents seized during World War II and stored at the National Archives, a collection that he helped index and preserve for generations of researchers, died 9 DEC at a hospital in Alexandria, Va. He was 93. The cause was respiratory failure, his son Marc Wolfe said. Few people in the world knew more about the paper trail of the Third Reich than Mr. Wolfe, a son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and an Army veteran of the Pacific and European theaters of the Second World War. Trained as a historian, he became a leader among the postwar archivists who took on the enormous job of cataloguing and copying the military and government documents captured in Adolf Hitler’s Germany. 
Robert Wolfe Mr. Wolfe “provided for a whole generation or two of historians access to this remarkable trove of records that fell into Allied hands,” said David Marwell, a noted investigator of Nazi war crimes and director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. “There was no one who appreciated the importance of documents more than Bob Wolfe and the importance of [their] being available and well described.” Wolfe’s efforts began in the early 1960s at the old torpedo factory in Alexandria, a complex that today is an arts center. There, after the war, the United States had stored tens of millions of German documents for intelligence-gathering and historical purposes. In a project led by the American Historical Association, those materials were transferred to microfilm, then deposited in the National Archives. Most of the originals were returned to what was then West Germany. Mr. Wolfe assisted in that effort, painstakingly cataloguing the materials in guides to be used by researchers. In 1961, he joined the National Archives — formally the National Archives and Records Administration, and sometimes described as the nation’s official attic — where he remained until and beyond his official retirement in 1995. He became chief of modern military records and was regarded as an authority on all of the institution’s materials related to Nazi Germany, one of the most significant collections of its kind. Among the items at the National Archives was an SS report documenting the shooting of 33,771 Jews at the Babi Yar ravine near Kiev, Ukraine, in September 1941. There was a bill from the German pest-control corporation for a half-ton of Zyklon B, the poison used in gas chambers, which was shipped to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. Also in the archives was a copy of a speech given by SS chief Heinrich Himmler to SS generals in Poznan, Poland, in 1943. “I also want to talk to you, quite frankly, on a very grave matter,” Himmler said, according to a translation published by the Associated Press. “I mean the clearing out of the Jew, the extermination of the Jewish race,” he continued. “This is a page of glory in our history which has never been written and is never to be written.” Himmler was “supposed to destroy” his notes, Mr. Wolfe told the AP. “Like a lot of bosses, he didn’t obey his own rules.” Richard Breitman, a Holocaust scholar at American University in Washington, described Mr. Wolfe as “a critical factor in the evolution of research on Nazi Germany in the United States.” [Source: Washington Post | Emily Langer | Jan. 05, 2015 ++] ******************************** OBIT | Lowell Steward | WWII ► 17 Dec 2014 When Lowell Steward was a student at Santa Barbara State College, he and other members of the school’s basketball team decided to enlist in the Army Air Forces. The others were accepted. “The powers-that-be seemed to be saying that Negroes couldn’t fly an airplane,” Steward told the Los Angeles Times in 1990. “They didn’t believe that Negroes had the mental capacity to do anything other than menial jobs. I had never touched an airplane, but that so incensed me that I said, ‘Hell, I know I can fly.’” And so he did. After 10 months of being told to wait, Steward enlisted in a new World War II military unit — an organization created by the then-segregated armed forces to train African-American pilots. Steward, who flew more than 100 combat missions and received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service with the famed Tuskegee Airmen, died of natural causes 17 DEC in a Ventura hospital, said Ron Brewington, president of the Los Angeles chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc. Steward was 95.  
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