I know he had an ex in Richland, WA. I thought it was Claire. I believe he also had an ex in Bakersfield, CA at the same time who is the mother of the oldest kids including Brian.

History of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma

looks like they had gunnery training there too in 1945?
picture of the base from 1943 attached

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In 1928, the federal government purchased 640 acres (260 ha) near Yuma at the recommendation of Colonel Benjamin F. Fly. Temporary dirt runways were installed for usage by military and civilian planes. It was called Fly Field.

The outbreak of World War II transformed the civilian airport into the Yuma Army Airfield. Construction of facilities began on 1 June 1942 and was activated on 15 December

Yuma AAF was a single-engine flight training school, operated by the Army Air Forces Flying Training Command, West Coast Training Center, later Western Flying Training Command. Flying training began in January 1943. Its training unit was the 307th Single Engine Flying Training Group which operated AT-6 Texans, reporting to the 37th Flying Training Wing. The base operating unit was the 403d Army Air Force Base Unit. In 1944, the unit was upgraded to multi-engine flight training, operating B-26 Marauders.

In addition to the flying training, a Flexible Gunnery School was established at the airfield in November 1943. Flight training was discontinued on 23 April 1945 and gunnery training on 31 May 1945.

The base was closed on 1 November 1945. After the war, the airfield was turned over to the Department of the Interior as a headquarters for the Bureau of Land Reclamation.

Just to be clear, the Marine Air Station is still open in Yuma.

Yes. I wanted to show if the claim is that Sheridan had apriori knowledge about flying to Yuma based on his Marine service time, then the Base would have to be operating during his service time, and it would be nice if there was a reason they might have flown him there.

A Marine isn't going to keep track of bases after his service time, right? At least a typical WWII Marine, I would think.

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Just to be clear, the Marine Air Station is still open in Yuma.

well, maybe he pointed the finger at someone else that needs privacy? Remember the newspaper article...he seemed to have told the FBI who he thought it was.

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I requested Linn Emrich's 302(s) under the FOIA. I heard back today that my request has been denied.

I don't know what to make of it because they denied the request based upon privacy matters even though Linn died several years ago.

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well, maybe he pointed the finger at someone else that needs privacy? Remember the newspaper article...he seemed to have told the FBI who he thought it was.

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I requested Linn Emrich's 302(s) under the FOIA. I heard back today that my request has been denied.

I don't know what to make of it because they denied the request based upon privacy matters even though Linn died several years ago.

That's what I was thinking. In fact, it's the only thing that makes sense other than the FBI denying my request just because they can.

I'm not sure if I mentioned that I spoke with Linn's wife in an attempt to get her to verify Sheridan's name as their suspect and that her conversation with me was quite coy. I actually felt as if she feared verifying the name...in part because of her name change and the way she spoke with me.

Call the wife up again.
Say "I don't want to ask you about accusations. Do you remember Sheridan Peterson? He says he was safety officer at Issaquah at some point, or did training. Did he? Was his nickname Dan"

See if she remembers when Clifford went in in 1962 during a night jump with Sheridan."

Get her talking about 1962 and Sheridan, without talking about the hijack

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well, maybe he pointed the finger at someone else that needs privacy? Remember the newspaper article...he seemed to have told the FBI who he thought it was.

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I requested Linn Emrich's 302(s) under the FOIA. I heard back today that my request has been denied.

I don't know what to make of it because they denied the request based upon privacy matters even though Linn died several years ago.

That's what I was thinking. In fact, it's the only thing that makes sense other than the FBI denying my request just because they can.

I'm not sure if I mentioned that I spoke with Linn's wife in an attempt to get her to verify Sheridan's name as their suspect and that her conversation with me was quite coy. I actually felt as if she feared verifying the name...in part because of her name change and the way she spoke with me.