LaVern L Schueller, a USAF Colonel Chaplain was on temporary duty at the Pentagon.
"It appeared that someone had taken a tin snip and cut the red "c" from American Airlines and leaned that piece of the fuselage on the wall about 200 feet from the impact area".
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/archive/bill_campbell/010923col1.html
... Terril believes from photos and news coverage that the plane sliced through the section of the Pentagon where he works roughly below his office, passing through the fifth, fourth and third rings of the building. ...
He knew immediately that what happened was connected to the acts of terrorism at the World Trade Center but guessed that an explosion was caused by a truck bomb.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/terror/0918-3.html
CMSgt John Monaccio:
"I was in room 1B461. The plane's inertia carried aircraft remains all the way through the building coming to rest on the outside walls of our offices. We discovered cockpit wreckage at our feet while attempting to rescue people from a Navy operations area."
Lt Col Tom McClain, retired, was OIC of National Guard Inspector General Inquiries/Complaints Division. He wrote:
"I saw the remains of the engines in the North parking lot of the Pentagon as well as melted aluminum and other debris left from the aircraft."
http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/pentagon/pentagon-email_20020316.html
Charles H. Krohn, the Army's deputy chief of public affairs reported that one of the aircraft's engines somehow ricocheted out of the building and arched into the Pentagon's mall parking area between the main building and the new loading dock facility,
http://www.aviationnow.com/content/publication/awst/20010917/aw48.htm
Ron Chaney, Retired Army Lt. Col. a program manager for Coleman Research Corp., was in a meeting "about 40 to 50 yards away" from the impact, and involved with search and rescue
"I got up close enough through the smoke to see a jet engine. That was the first time I knew whatâd happened and that it was a commercial airliner. Iâd really thought it was a Lear jet-sized plane because the Pentagon is a pretty big damned building."
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache
Tom Hovis,
thovis@mindspring.com a Fairfax, Assoc. Member, reports:
The nosewheel I understand is in the grass near the second ring.
http://www.beanerbanner.com/a_father____.htm
"We didn't have a clue that it was a plane until we got outside and saw pieces of the airplane everywhere," Sinclair said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2777-2001Oct3
"Among the trash littering the road was a scorched green oxygen tank marked "Cabin air. Airline use."
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/091201/12wtcpentagon.html
Michael Tamillow, a battalion chief and search and rescue expert for the Fairfax County, Virginia, Fire Department confirtms the discovery of "parts of the fuselage" albeit that " No large pieces apparently survived".
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/pentagon.terrorism/
With another firefighter, Brian Moravitz, they were combing through debris near the impact site at about 4.00 a.m. on Friday 14th.
Peering at the wreckage with their helmet lights, the two spotted an intact seat from the planeâs cockpit with a chunk of the floor still attached. Then they saw two odd-shaped dark boxes, about 1.5 by 2 feet long. Theyâd been told the planeâs âblack boxesâ would in fact be bright orange, but these were charred black. The boxes had handles on one end and one was torn open. They cordoned off the area and called for an FBI agent, who in turn called for someone from the National Transportation Safety Board who confirmed the find: the black boxes from American Airlines Flight 77.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/635293.asp
Judy Biggert, a Congress Member, visited on Thursday.
''There was a seat from a plane, there was part of the tail and then there was a part of green metal, I could not tell what it was, a part of the outside of the plane,'' she said. ''It smelled like it was still burning.''
http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stories/cst-nws-pent16.html
Lori Lewis
ImLoriJean@aol.com a Fairfax County 911 center call taker and police and fire dispatcher worked at the scene..
"... There were hundreds of cardboard boxes and plastic tubs lined up to be packed with evidence. Large and small pieces of the airplane were laying on the ground waiting to be sorted."
"... In other office windows, the glass was not shattered but melted, oozing down like candle wax".
http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/ps/police/reports/The Blue Line-Fall 2001.PDF
' Buttcrax OMO' posted (9/13/01 9:47:44 pm) a message from his son, D C Mathew:
"...The plane came in low, over a highway, knocking over a light pole on it's approach. I don't know if the media will ever get the tapes, but there are about three or four surveillance cameras, one of which is on a traffic sign on the highway, and may be a public camera, that would have had shots of the plane from as close as a few dozen yards from it when it came in.
"...After about 15 minutes shoveling up chunks of carpet and brick, I found a piece of circuit board, and a chunk of the plane. When I say a chunk of it, I mean a piece that was about 3 oz of twisted aluminum.
The biggest piece I've seen so far is about the size of a refrigerator.
http://pub6.ezboard.com/foldmenonlinewhatdoyouthink.showPrevMessage?topicID=957.topic
LTC Victor Correaâs office was hit. He was knocked down by the impact.
âI saw a fireball come over my head ...coming like a wind-cloud of smoke trailing it. I also noticed to my right the windows going out and coming back in. The fireball came in and out quick â the speed of lightning. As it went back, it left a cloud of smoke and started dropping. At that time the fire system went up.
He spent the remainder of the day rescuing. Eventually, after calling home, he moved on to join a litter team preparing to go in the building.
This time, according to Correa, he found out what caused the horrific attack he survived
earlier that morning; he saw the nose cone and the landing gear of the airliner."
http://www.army.mil/usar/news/2002/09-11anniv/herotellsall.html
Staff Sgt. Chris Braman and another rescuer, an Army lieutenant colonel, clambered through a broken first-floor window and into the E Ring's fiery wreckage.
"The lawn was littered with twisted pieces of aluminum. He saw one chunk painted with the letter 'A,' another with a 'C.' It didn't occur to Braman what the letters signified until a man in the crowd stooped to pick up one of the smaller metal shards. He examined it for a moment, then announced: 'This was a jet.' "
http://www.pilotonline.com/special/911/pentagon3b.html
ARFF fire crews reported fires on every floor of the "D" and "E" rings.
"The only way you could tell that an aircraft was inside was that we saw pieces of the nose gear.
http://www.nfpa.org/NFPAJournal/OnlineExclusive/Exclusive_11_01_01/exclusive_11.01.01.asp