WWII (Other Keyword)
1-25 (67 Records)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The study of submerged aircraft is relatively new, and although traditional archaeological recording methods have been effective, the wrecking event and site formation of an aircraft falling from the sky is inherently different than that of a sinking ship. Just as different vessels from varying eras and nations necessitate...
America’s Forgotten World War II Battlefield (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beyond Monitor National Marine Sanctuary’s (MNMS) current boundaries off North Carolina lie waters associated with nearly 500 years of western maritime history and includes shipwrecks representing coastal heritage, American Civil War, U.S. naval aviation, World War I, and most prominently World War II (WWII). MNMS is proposing a boundary expansion to protect and honor these...
Archaeological Forensic Recovery for Repatriation: WWII Bomber Crash Site in Germany (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. This study focuses on the archaeological forensic recovery conducted at a WWII U.S. bomber crash site in Germany. Through a multidisciplinary approach, including excavation techniques, forensic anthropology, and historical analysis, the research aims to systematically recover and...
Archaeological Investigations of "Alaska" at Tule Lake Segregation Center in Northeastern California; Findings from Ground Penetrating Radar (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tule Lake Segregation Center (TLSC) was a place of incarceration for over 18,000 Japanese Americans, yet it remains one of the most understudied incarceration sites of the Second World War. This presentation is an addition to the thesis research “Archaeological Investigations of "Alaska" at Tule Lake Segregation Center in Northeastern California”. The...
Archaeology and the Battle of the Atlantic: Approaches, Methods and Results of Studying and Underwater Battlefield (2015)
Seven years of focused research has been directed towards studying and characterizing WWII losses off the coast of North Carolina. During this time, NOAA has worked with multiple state, federal, academic and private sector partners to increase our understanding of this large collection of resources. This project evolved over time in both theoretical approaches as well as methodologies employed to collect data. Over the course of seven years an incredible amount of information has been uncovered:...
Artillery and Anomalies: Marine Remote-sensing off Guam’s WWII Invasion Beaches (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. In February 2023, a research team completed the first comprehensive and systematic marine remote-sensing survey of the WWII invasion beaches on Guam. The Asan and Agat units of War in the Pacific National Historic Park (WAPA) were forever changed in July 1944. The invasion beaches are not only the center of a WWII...
Attachment: Buckley Garrison Cultural Resources Management Program Section 106 Project Review (2021)
Establishment and Use of Colorado Army National Guard (COARNG) Advanced Dynamic Hoist Training Areas. The COARNG Army Aviation Support Facility (AASF) desires to conduct advanced dynamic hoist training in the Alpha and Bravo (A & B) Drop Zones (DZ’s) of Buckley Air Force Base (BAFB) (Appendix A) on an indefinite basis.
B-24 Liberator Aircraft: Survey Results and Partnerships for Upcoming Recovery Project (2017)
In 1944, factory workers and community members from Tulsa, OK financed the last B-24 Liberator built by the Tulsa Douglas Aircraft plant. They named her Tulsamerican, signed and wrote messages on her fuselage, and sent her to Europe with a part Tulsa crew. She crashed off the coast of Croatia after a bombing mission but was never forgotten as a WWII community icon. After imaging and preservation surveys in 2014 and 2015, researchers are now preparing for the recovery of remains and personal...
Battle of Midway: 2017's Exploration for Sunken Aircraft (2018)
In May of 2017, the NPS' Submerged Resources Center and NOAA's Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument conducted an exploratory survey for sunken aircraft from WWII's Battle of Midway in June of 1942. What was found spanned the centuries of maritime activity at the Atoll including the battle. It also displayed on the seafloor all aspects of the military's long use of the island as a base, and their lasting impact on the island landscape. Today multiple federal agencies manage Midway as a...
Battlefields Above the Colorado Clouds: Inventory of the Camp Hale Training Area (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument was established in central Colorado’s mountains in 2022. Now razed, the Army cantonment of Camp Hale was originally home to WWII’s vaunted 10th Mountain Division, the first and only American mountain infantry division. Metcalf Archaeological Consultants has been involved...
Buckley SFB Project Metadata
Project metadata for resources in the Buckley SFB collection.
Carpeted with Ammunition: Investigations of the Florence D shipwreck site, Northern Territory, Australia (2017)
The American transport ship Florence D disappeared in the murky waters off of the Tiwi Islands after being bombed by Japanese fighter planes on their return from the first air attack on Darwin Harbour on 19 February 1942. Considered one Australia’s great wartime mysteries, the location of the site was unknown until discovered by a local fisherman in 2006. Archaeological investigations of the wreck later conducted by teams from the Northern Territory’s Heritage Branch verified the identity of the...
A Case Study in Collaborative Research: ECU’s 2019 Marshall Islands Field School (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "East Carolina University Partnerships and Innovation with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 2019 ECU Program in Maritime Studies Fall Field School was a collaborative research project with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on sites located at Kwajalein Atoll. The primary focus of the project was the investigation of an archaeological site of interest to DPAA,...
Citizen Science in Saipan: Engaging an Island Community (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. The 2023 NOAA Saipan project included a significant public outreach component. A major part of the grant focused on re-visiting sites included in the WWII Battle of Saipan Maritime Heritage Trail to conduct monitoring and update site plans. Since these sites first were documented to create the Trail in 2008,...
Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Cultural Resource Management Data Form 5AH1132.2 (2018)
Management Data Form for site 5AH1132.2
Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Cultural Resource Management Data Form and Linear Component Form 5AH536 (2018)
Management Data Form and Linear Component Form for site 5AH536 which represents a segment of WWII railroad track serving Buckley Air Force Base as well as the Fitzsimmons and Lowrey installations. Post-war, the rail line was converted to a trail and paved. By 2018 the site was much eroded and disturbed. One railroad spike was recovered.
Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Historic Archaeology Component Form for Buckley Field Running track (2020)
Historic Archaeology Component Form for Site 5EP.8392 (5AH.3892).
Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Linear Component Form for Buckley Field, 1942 B-8 Roads - 5AH.3891 (2020)
Linear Component Form for Site 5AH.3891
Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Linear Component Form for unnamed historic road system at the north end of Buckley AFB - 5AH.3890.1 (2020)
Linear Component Form for Site 5AH.3890.1
Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Management Data Form 5AH.3890.2 (2020)
Management Data Form for site 5AH.3890.2
Cultural Resources Management Report, Historical Survey of World War II Era Buildings, Buckley Air National Guard Base, Aurora, Colorado (1990)
This report presents the results of a historical survey of World War II era temporary, wooden (T-buildings), semi-permanent and permanent structures at Buckley Air National Guard Base, Aurora, Colorado. This report also contains a letter from Alfred Scharff, Lt. Col., USAF Base Civil Engineer, Buckley Air Force Base to Georgianna Contigulia, State Historic Preservation Officer, Colorado History Museum, regarding Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the construction and operation of...
Dauntless Protection: Managing the U.S. Navy Aircraft Wrecks of Lake Michigan (2020)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1942 to 1945, the U.S. Navy conducted extensive Carrier Qualification Training in Lake Michigan. The training program was highly successful with only 120 aircraft lost in the lake, a considerably low number when taking into account the 120,000 successful landings and 35,000 pilots qualified. As a group, and individually, these wrecksites represent an important and unique piece of...
Deepwater AUV Surveys of WWII U.S. Cultural Assets in the Saipan Channel (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 February 2022 members of Scripps Institution of Oceanography conducted an exploratory ocean survey using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to locate and document multiple U.S. WWII B-29 aircraft that crashed offshore Tinian and Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern...
Developing Personhood: The discourse, experience, and material culture of children’s play activities in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp (2016)
Recent studies apply the concept of "personhood" to the archaeological record as part of the continuing attempt to understand the complexities of past societies by moving away from gross categories and instead examining socially constructed roles. This paper explores the application of "personhood" as a way to transcend a broadly defined focus on "children" or "childhood." Such generalizing terms can obscure the impact of gender, age, and other social or economic variables on children’s...
East Carolina University and Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Partnership Projects in Saipan, CNMI (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "East Carolina University Partnerships and Innovation with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. ECU’s Program in Maritime Studies recently engaged in a partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and their mission to recover lost service members from past wars. As part of that relationship, ECU hosted a two-year fellow, and took on several missions in both Europe and...