Here is Allen's story.

I was told on Friday April 14, 2006, while I was down there for my  normal Docent Shift, that we were given this space. The other half of the berthing space ( which is larger) was given to the Lake Champlain CVA-39.  So I measured up the space, and came home and laid it to scale on graph paper.  The following Tuesday Tawny and I went down and took apart one of the cases, they came apart just like you said they would. We brought the parts down to the hanger deck and out on number 3 elevator to the scissor-lift to the dock and loaded them into my Ranger pick-up.  I had determined that I would have to cut 3 of the cases down to 7ft 6in and the fourth one to 7ft even to make them fit.  So we brought it home and cut it down and made a Prorto type table to fit the case.  Painted everything including the case.  We took it back the following Tuesday and set it up in the new space.  Then we went up the the parachute locker and took apart 2 more cases and brought them home.  We cut them down and I built the 3 remaining tables plus a small one for the metal locker.  It took 2 trips to get the 2 cases and the four tables down there in my little pick-up.  So it took from April 14th to May 21st to do all of this and the fourth case.  We then left for the 2006 Reunion In Michigan City.  I showed the pictures at the business meeting.  When we returned from the Reunion I had the 2 Shell Cases that Bob Hayner had given me, he got them from someone else. So I used them for the legs on the podium for the guest book.  I also made up the 2 photo boards that I mounted in the Rack Frames.