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This is an abstract from the "Developing Standard Methods, Public Interpretation, and Management Strategies on Submerged Military Archaeology Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. World War II awakened the industrial power of the United States. Supplying and waging war across two oceans, the US relied on tankers to move oil to its naval fleets and those of its allies. Carrying the fuel that drove the American war machine, these tankers became...
Matters of Steel: Examining the Deterioration of a World War II Merchant Shipwreck (2015)
Between May 24th and June 1st, 2014, NOAA’s Monitor National Marine Sanctuary collaborated with the Battle of the Atlantic Research and Expedition Group to survey and map the merchant shipwreck Caribsea, a freighter sunk off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1942 by the German submarine U-158. The data acquired from this project was instrumental in a study designed to illustrate and interpret site formation processes affecting World War II ferrous-hulled merchant shipwrecks. This...
Midway 2023: Overview and Initial Results of the 2023 Telepresence Mission to the Battle of Midway (1942) Site (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the fall of 2023, a NOAA-funded mission by the Ocean Exploration Trust and other partners conducted a series of telepresence-assisted remotely operated vehicle assessments of three sites from the pivotal WWII naval battle of Midway. The carriers USS Yorktown, HIJMS Akagi, and HIJMS Kaga, all previously...
Notes from Scott Shepherd, Building 156 Foreclosure, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas (1993)
A few emails written as notes by Scott Shepherd detailing conversations and drafting for formal letters concerning the proposed undertakings for Building 156 at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. This letter is part of 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...
Of Water and War: Examining the Intersection of Desalination Technologies and Military Strategy on Wake Atoll During World War II (2018)
Although desalination systems saw widespread use in maritime settings throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, mechanical improvements in the mid-1800s increased the utility of this technology for military purposes – specifically, the occupation and defense of otherwise uninhabitable lands. This paper examines the implementation and impacts of desalination technologies in one such location. Situated halfway between Hawaii and the Philippines, Wake Atoll is devoid of any natural source of...
Phase IA Cultural Resources Background Study for the Logistics Facility Warehouse Project. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Burlington County, New Jersey. (2022)
The report completed a review of previous cultural resources studies and archaeological and historic architectural within 0.25 mile of the proposed logistics facility project area. No archaeological sites were identified within the archaeological APE. Due to prior disturbances, lack of soil integrity, and absence of previously recorded historic properties, HDR recommends no further cultural resources work within the archaeological and architectural APE. The report identified 23 previously...
Preliminary Examinations of the Archaeology of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Manhattan Project brought scientists, support staff, members of the U.S. military and skilled craftsmen together on the remote Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico with a common goal of bringing an end to World War II. As the project evolved from its beginning in 1943 to its official end in December of 1946, as new laboratories and testing areas were constructed for specific...
Public Memory and Dark Heritage at Santa Claus Village (2016)
Cutting across the Arctic Circle in the heart of Finnish Lapland, Santa Claus Village celebrates familiar holiday legends while offering visits with Santa and the opportunity to purchase a host of consumer goods. The Yuletide tourist attraction north of Rovaniemi sits on a landscape that was a Luftwaffe airbase during World War II, and many of the foundations of the massive base’s support structures visibly dot the forests around Santa Claus land. The history of Finland’s status as...
Recent Search and Recovery Efforts: Honoring Missing US Service Personnel through Forensic Archaeology (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Fulfilling a Nation’s Promise: The Search, Recovery, and Accounting Efforts of DPAA and Its Partners" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is dedicated to identifying and honoring missing US service personnel, particularly from World War II and other conflicts. Recent search and recovery efforts conducted by Alta Archaeological Consulting (ALTA), through the DPAA Partnerships and...
Remains to Recover? The Havoc A-20 Deep Ocean Investigation, May 2023 (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Battlefield: The Search for World War II’s Missing in Action by DPAA and Its Partners", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On 29 September 1941, a Havoc A-20 bomber aircraft departed the island of O`ahu for a routine training mission. Following engine failure, the plane crashed into the ocean, and the pilot and observer were lost. In March 2011, researchers from the Hawai`i Undersea Research...
Response from Gary Vest to John Harper, Foreclosure of Undertakings for Buildings 902, 216, 661, and 675, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas (1993)
A letter concerning foreclosure for the rehabilitation of Buildings 902, 216, 661, and 675 at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. This letter is part of 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.
Revisiting the Sentinels: An Analysis of Data Recovery Potential from the Razed Manhattan Project Built Environment, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Twenty years ago, cultural resource managers produced a multiple-property evaluation of extant Manhattan Project properties at Los Alamos National Laboratory titled “Sentinels of the Atomic Dawn.” “Sentinels” recorded 49 standing buildings and two archaeological sites. Since that initial evaluation, 29 of the 49 buildings have been demolished and the two...
S.S. Thomas T. Tucker (1942): Updated Research on a Wrecked U.S. Liberty Ship in South Africa (2017)
S.S. Thomas T. Tucker, a U.S. Liberty Ship operated by the Merchants and Miners Company on behalf of the US Maritime Commission, was part of the 42-ship convoy carrying material to the British African Front during World War II. The ship was reported lost in action carrying an assortment of British lend-lease and wartime purchase cargo. This disarticulated beach shipwreck site provides an ideal educational opportunity for students to conduct basic pre-disturbance archaeological recording,...
Scott Plaza Family Housing Area Final Conformance Report. 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 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 in buildings 5413, 5414, 5415, 5419, 5420, 5421,...
Scott Plaza Family Housing Area Final Information Package. Fort Dix NJ (2008)
Fort Dix commissioned an architectural history survey and conditions assessment for the Scott Plaza Family Housing Historic District's 7 Georgian Revival residential buildings, 3 associated garages, and 2 associated transformer vault buildings and landscaping. The Information Package that describes the contributing (NRHP eligible) structures and buildings and historic landscapes in compliance with a Programmatic Agreement among the Army Air Force, and NJHPO. Renovations begun in November 2006...
Searching for the lost Marines of Guadalcanal (2017)
In early 2016, Garcia & Associates conducted forensic archaeological investigations for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. DPAA (formerly JPAC) is the Department of Defense agency tasked with providing the fullest possible accounting for missing American service personnel from past wars. During World War II, the Battle for Guadalcanal lasted from 7 August 1942 to 9 February 1943 and included intense ground fighting to secure the airstrip known as...
Searching for WWII Naval Heritage in the St. Johns River: the 2022 Survey at Green Cove Springs (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "From Whalers to World War II: Guam Underwater Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Green Cove Springs was the site of a WWII naval airfield and housed over 300 ships from the mothballed Atlantic Fleet following the war. At least one F4F Wildcat plane wreck and one landing craft wreck were known to be at the bottom of the river adjacent to the air station. In 2022, the Lighthouse Archaeological...
The Social Life of Crash Sites: Understanding World War II Sites in Context in the Search for Missing Air Crew (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Fulfilling a Nation’s Promise: The Search, Recovery, and Accounting Efforts of DPAA and Its Partners" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological sites are only rarely preserved as pristine moments in time, unaltered since the site was formed. More often, they are a continuous production, forming a part of the social and cultural landscape of the surrounding area. In this paper, we draw upon Appadurai’s idea of the...
Soldier's Exemption: Post-War Domestic Consumption in Flagstaff, Arizona (2020)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. With the impact of World War II and the development of Route 66, Flagstaff, Arizona grew exponentially from the 1940s to the 1960s. This growth is seen through a series of domestic artifacts collected at a home in Flagstaff’s Southside Historic District. Due to a lack of archaeological context, in this poster, we explore the items through the history of the Carrenos, a Hispanic family who...
Student Contributions to International Collaboration in MIA Cases: A Personal Case Study (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Fulfilling a Nation’s Promise: The Search, Recovery, and Accounting Efforts of DPAA and Its Partners" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigating archaeological sites related to the recovery of MIAs from past conflicts requires international collaboration among various agencies and civilian volunteers. I graduated in 2023 as an art history and archaeology student at the University of Namur (Belgium). I served as an...
Telepresence-Enabled Archaeological Exploration of ex-USS Independence (CVL22) in the Gulf of the Farallones (2018)
In 2016, a joint NOAA/Ocean Exploration Trust mission in the E/V nautilus conducted a series of telepresence-enabled dives on the carrier Independence, a World War II veteran used as a target ship in the 1946 atomic weapons tests at Bikini Atoll. Subsequently used as a floating laboratory and a post-nuclear attack training platform by the US Navy, Independence rests in 822 meters of water where it was scuttled in 1951. The dives, the first to survey and document the wreck, were shared with a...
The Trinidad and Tobago Mission 2022: A Sunken B-25 and a New Partnership between the University of Miami and DPAA (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. Near the end of WWII, a B-25G departed an airfield in Trinidad for a 50 mile, 4-hour long photographic mission to Tobago. After hearing an airplane overhead, eye witness accounts detailed a craft with potential engine problems that turned into a ball of smoke and flame that plummeted from an...
Twentieth Century Geoglyphs - Military Training Targets of World War II (2015)
For archaeologists, the term geoglyph typically conjures up images of enormous carved landscapes such as the Nazca Lines in Peru or the Blythe Intaglios in California’s Mojave Desert. But the creation of earth drawings is not restricted to people of the distant past. Modern populations have also been known to produce their own geoglyphs. Like their prehistoric predecessors, many contemporary geoglyphs have spiritual or ceremonial significance, but others were generated for purely functional...
The Wreck and the Williwaw: Archival Identification of a World War II Shipwreck in the Aleutian Islands (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "From Whalers to World War II: Guam Underwater Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The history of World War II is replete with stories of famous maritime losses. Arizona, Royal Oak, Bismarck, Yamato – these names are etched into collective memory. But the losses of non-naval vessels are often less well known. This is especially true in distant theaters like the Aleutian Islands, which stretch for...