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Project metadata for resources within the 611th Air Support Group cultural heritage resources collection.
Alles Vergeht, Alles Verweht: Orphaned Heritage of Denmark’s Atlantic Wall. (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The most obvious enduring evidence of WWII in Denmark is the concrete bunkers dotting the landscape. On the west coast, the structures were part of the enormous chain of bunkers that created the Atlantic Wall. The bunkers remain today and have...
Analysis of Management Alternatives. Hangars 5 & 6. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Revised Draft. (2022)
The plan summarizes the historic context for the Lighter-Than-Air Historic District, focused on Hangars 5 and 6, and provides conditions assesssments for Hangars 5 and 6. The plan summarizes management options and recommends mitigation approaches for management options with the potential to adversely affect the facilities.
Applying the Power of Partnerships to the Search for America's Missing in Action (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Applying the Power of Partnerships to the Search for America's Missing in Action", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since 2015, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's Partnerships and Innovations Directorate (DPAA/PI) has successfully completed over 150 missions around the world, aided by the expertise and capabilities of more than 80 partner organizations. Included in this growing number of partners are...
Archaeological Remote Sensing Survey of Operation Neptune: The D-Day Landings at Omaha and Utah Beaches, Normandy, France (Legacy 01-131)
This report discusses a 3-year remote sensing survey off the Normandy coast to obtain additional information on U.S. naval losses during Operation Neptune. The Navy History Center will use this data to create a cultural resources management planning document and gain future research baseline data to evaluate site significance.
Archaeological Remote Sensing Survey of Operation Neptune: The D-Day Landings at Omaha and Utah Beaches, Normandy, France - Report (Legacy 01-131) (2002)
This report discusses a 3-year remote sensing survey off the Normandy coast to obtain additional information on U.S. naval losses during Operation Neptune. The Navy History Center will use this data to create a cultural resources management planning document and gain future research baseline data to evaluate site significance.
Archaeology and Dissonant Memories of Japanese American Incarceration (2018)
Memories of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps during WWII vary widely across America. For some, memories of the incarceration are a focal point of their identity and a driver of political action. Others who underwent this imprisonment chose not to recall their experiences. The incarceration can haunt their descendants as an ever-present but silenced past. Broadly, the United States’ relationship to this past is fractured. Activists invoke the incarceration as an affront to American...
Archaeology, Shadowed Pasts, and the Making of Heritage (2015)
As Laurajane Smith contents, heritage is not a series of sites, but of practices. Practioners of contemporary archaeology are lodged firmly in that practice, participating through the data we uncover, the stakeholders we engage, and even the media attention we draw to particular historic events but not others. The archaeology of Amache, the site of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp, is a long-term, community-based project focused on a past that has often been muted in...
Army Program Comment for World War II and Cold War Era (1939-1974) Ammunition Production Facilities and Plants (2006)
This Program Comment provided the Department of the Army with an alternative way to comply with its responsibilities following management actions on World War II and Cold War Era Army Ammunition Production Facilities and Plants that may be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (Facilities and Plants): ongoing operations, maintenance and repair, rehabilitation, renovation, mothballing, cessation of maintenance, new construction, demolition, deconstruction and salvage,...
Artistic Endeavors in Nebraska’s Prisoner of War Camps (2015)
During the Second World War, thousands of prisoners of war were transported to the United States to be held for the duration of the conflict. The Geneva Convention served as the primary doctrine influencing how camps were built and how the prisoner populations were treated. Under the convention, prisoners were able to work for a wage as well as pursue hobbies in areas like education, sports, and the arts. This paper explores how the artistic pursuits of German POWs influenced the material record...
Avon Park Air Force Range Cold War Survey
Documents and images relating to the Avon Park Air Force Range Cold War Survey prepared by Geo-Marine, Inc. for Avon Park Air Force Range.
Avon Park Air Force Range: Cold War Summary (2009)
This document is a brief summary detailing the historic milestones and developments of Avon Park Air Force Range. Cold War Missions are summarized and the establishment of departments, facilities and ranges are also recognized. The document includes database definitions for cell contents found in the Avon Park Air Force Range Cold War-Era Historic Property Survey (tDAR id: 391320) located in the “Avon Park Air Force Range Cold War Survey” project. The project also includes photographs detailing...
Avon Park Air Force Range: Cold War-Era Historic Property Survey (2009)
This database accompanies the Avon Park Air Force Range: Cold War Summary (tDAR id: 391321), detailing the facilities, sites and historic properties included in the report. The facility number, street number, street, architect, original drawing number, original building name, category summary, inception date, original building/site use, NRHP status, integrity summary, installation/installation ID and building structure notes are all included in this database for each facility and site in the...
Black Gold in the Deep Blue: The Search for a Lost WWII Oil Tanker (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 1941-1945, 87 ships were lost off North Carolina's coast; two-thirds of these were sunk by German U-boats. This record earned the area the nickname of “Torpedo Junction”. Many of these wrecks have been found; others remain lost. This poster will examine the possibility of relocating one of these missing wrecks, the oil tanker William Rockefeller. When it was sunk, Rockefeller...
Building Collaboration and Sustaining Partnership for the Recovery of Missing American Airmen from the Second World War in Austria (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For the last three years, the University of Maryland, College Park, has partnered with the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and the University of Vienna to seek out and recover missing US airmen from World War II. Through archaeological field schools utilizing forensic protocols, our...
Can Firing Position of WWII Soldiers Be Determined by Shell Scatters? Preliminary Data from Experimental Archaeology (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster describes results from an experiment designed to determine if there is consistency in the shell scatter patterns of the Colt 1911, Thompson M1A1 Submachine Gun, M1 Carbine and M1 Garand, all common weapons of the American World War II Soldier. Forensic Ballistic evidence has proven to be a valid method of inquiry when determining the movements of...
Carissimo Salvatore: An Archaeological view of Italian Service Units at the Presidio of San Francisco (2015)
Over 50,000 Italian prisoners of war were transported to the United States during World War II. After Italy negotiated an armistice with the Allies, POWs were presented with a choice. Those that signed an oath of allegiance to the new Italian government were assigned to Italian Service Units (ISUs). They provided support services for the United States military in exchange for limited freedoms and better living conditions. Those that refused to sign the oath remained in POW camps. This paper...
Condition Report: Scott Plaza Family Housing Area. Fort Dix, New Jersey (2009)
"The report describes rehabilitation activites at the National Register-eligible Scott Plaza Family Housing Area in Fort Dix, New Jersey and documents their final conformance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Treatment of Historic Properties (Treatment Standards). Between October 2007 and April 2008, John Cullinane Associates made six monthly visits to the Scott Plaza Family Housing Area in order to monitor rehabilitation activities. The report summarizes rehabilitation...
Consolidated Canal, South of the Salt River, Chandler Vicinity, Maricopa County, Arizona - AZ-55 - Written Historical and Descriptive Data, Photographs (2023)
The Consolidated Canal conveys water for agricultural, municipal and industrial uses south of the Salt River. In addition, the canal right-of-way is utilized for three separate and distinct city recreation thoroughfares. The Consolidated Canal played a crucial role in the development of agriculture in the Salt River Valley, the early evolution of the city of Chandler, and the unification of the Salt River Project’s consolidated southside canal system. Historic portions of the canal featured...
Correspondence Packet, 1993 Undertakings at Building 156, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas
A large packet of correspondence and associated documents concerning a complex proposal of undertakings for World War II temporary buildings located on Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. Many of the documents are drafts and letters from internal circulation within Randolph Air Force Base.
Correspondence Packet, Undertakings at Building 156, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas (1993)
A large packet of correspondence and associated documents concerning a complex proposal of undertakings for World War II temporary buildings located on Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. Many of the documents are drafts and letters from internal circulation within Randolph Air Force Base.
A Deepwater World War II Battlefield: The German U-boat, U-166, and Passenger Freighter Robert E. Lee (2016)
During World War II, Germany sent their U-boats to the Gulf of Mexico to conduct warfare on merchant shipping. As a result approximately seventy merchant vessels were sunk or damaged with only one U-boat lost in the Gulf of Mexico during that action. The wreck sites of the German U-boat, U-166 and it last victim the passenger freighter Robert E. Lee were first investigated by archaeologists in 2001. Fourteen years of historical and archaeological research reveals the intricacies of this...
Department of Defense Programmatic Memorandum of Agreement for Demolition of World War II Temporary Buildings (1986)
This Programmatic Memorandum of Agreement is among the Department of Defense, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. The agreement regards the demolition of World War II temporary buildings. Executed – June 1986; Amended – May 1, 1991.
DoD Program Comment for World War II and Cold War Era (1939-1974) Ammunition Storage Facilities (2006)
This Program Comment provides the Department of Defense (DoD) and its Military Departments with an alternative way to comply with their responsibilities following management actions on World War II and Cold War Era ammunition storage facilities that may be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places: ongoing operations, maintenance and repair, rehabilitation, renovation, mothballing, cessation of maintenance, new construction, demolition, deconstruction and salvage,...
Exploring the Indigenous Experience of Saipan in World War II (2018)
During World War II in the Pacific, the Battle of Saipan became one of the pivotal successes of the United States military to turn the tide of war. Unfortunately, this success came at a cost to the residents of the island, and while the Japanese civilian experience has been largely studied, the indigenous experience has been bypassed. By exploring the development of the construction on the island and civilian holding camps by U.S. military and Saipan civilians, the impact sustained from the...