Topics include: Development of first weather radars and upper win measuring systems; early days of Air Weather Services; C.O. Weather Reconaissance Squadron based at Eilson Air Force Base, Alaska; discovery and occupation of ice island T-3 (Fletcher's Island); development of the Natoinal Science Foundation's Antartctic Program; thoughts about role of polar regions and atmospheric circulations in control of global climate; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's climate research program.