World War II (Temporal Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text E. Tianna Crollett. Deni J. Seymour.

This report presents the results of an archaeological survey in support of proposed installation of a fiber optic cable line. One historic site was encountered and recommended as potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

DOCUMENT Full-Text John A. Evaskovich. Deni J. Seymour. Chris A. Turnbow.

Mariah Associates, Inc. completed a Class III Cultural Resource Inventory of approximately 155 acres on Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The project encompassed approximately 155 acres for proposed blast testing at and adjacent to the existing Giant Reusable Air Blast Simulator (GRABS) facility. No cultural resources were observed during the survey, and archaeological clearance for the proposed undertaking is recommended.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brianne Sisneros. Antonio De Cunzo. Cherie K Walth.

AFCEC on behalf of Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) has retained SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) to conduct an intensive archaeological pedestrian survey of 50.00 acres in Arroyo del Coyote within the KAFB property in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The project is being completed under the Fence-to-Fence Environmental Services at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The purpose of this project is to assist Kirtland Air Force Base in complying with Section 110 of the National Historic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T.L. Knight. G.E. Esqueda.

During April 1993, Advanced Sciences, Inc. conducted a cultural resource survey of the proposed extension of the Exterior Sensor Test Field for the Intrusion Detection Systems Technology Department (IDST) at Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico (SNL/NM). This project was performed on land owned by Kirtland Air Force Base. The total project area covered by this survey is 73 acres (29.2 hectares). This report discusses the reconnaissance performed for the project, inclusive of a 50 foot ( 15...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah R. Corbin. Mark S. Cassell. Adam C.F. Cox.

This report provides the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) with the results of a cultural resource survey conducted for the proposed Municipal Light & Power Fossil Creek switchyard and right-of-way corridor project on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska by Territory heritage Resource Consulting (THRC) in July 2012 and July 2013. This document also includes communication between the Bureau of Land Management and the Alaska State Historic Preservation Office.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Geo-Marine, Inc..

Informational brochure on historic structures at Peterson Air Force Base.

DOCUMENT Full-Text 15th Airlift Wing, 15 Civil Engineering Squadron, Environmental Division.

The 15th Airlift Wing (15 AW), PACAF, USAF, proposed to convert the operations of Wake Atoll to very limited operations (VLO) in fiscal year (FY) 2008. As a result, the purpose of this report is to identify and evaluate post-WW II cultural resources on Wake Atoll so an assessment can be made regarding what effects the proposed action would have on any historic properties eligible for or listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). This document contains the inventory of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan L. Bupp.

A Supplemental Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection (PA/SI) was conducted at F.E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB), Cheyenne, Wyoming. The purpose of this project was to identify potentially contaminated sites that may require additional investigation and/or remediation under the Air Force Installation Restoration Program (IRP). The Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection (PA/SI) included sampling and analysis of soil and groundwater to assess the potential for contamination. Ten areas of concern...

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The purpose of the Cultural Resources Plan for Maxwell AFB, Gunter Annex is to conform to the directive set forth by Air Force Regulation 126-7, Historic Preservation (28 August 1987). The Cultural Resources Plan should be viewed as a specialized component of the Base Comprehensive Plan. The purpose of the Cultural Resources Plan is to comply with AFR 126-7 by identifying all resources eligible for the National Register of Historic Places; assessing the effects of the implementation of the Base...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel T. Price.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text M. Todd Cleveland. Mark D. Chancellor.

During May and June 1999, TRC Garrow Associates, Inc. (TRC), conducted survey and evaluation of seven World War II (WWII) temporary buildings and a former communications building at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Edmund P. Gaines.

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) has proposed to construct two new demolition ranges—Demolition Range “A” and Demolition Range “B”—at the Richardson Training Area (RTA), with new access roads proposed at each range. During the period of September 18-22, AECOM archaeologists, under the direct supervision of Principal Investigator Edmund Gaines, M.A., R.PA., performed a cultural resources survey of the project’s APEs. This work was conducted for the 673d Civil Engineer Squadron,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Edmund P. Gaines.

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) had proposed to conduct watershed and fishery enhancement activities in the Otter Creek and Six mile Creek watersheds within the boundaries of the installation. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), on behalf of the 673d Civil Engineer Squadron, Environmental Conservation Section, contracted AECOM Technical Services (AECOM) to perform cultural resources surveys of the project's APE at Otter Creek and six mile Creek. This document details those surveys.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brianne Sisneros. Paisley Palmer. Mark Williams. Cherie K Walth.

SWCA surveyed 50.00 acres on behalf of Kirtland Air Force Base and identified six archaeological sites and 10 IOs. One archaeological site (LA 194069) is a newly recorded site. Data from ARMS suggested that the survey area would also encounter LA 107704, LA 108123, LA 121916, LA 121919, and LA 138016. During the current investigation, SWCA found the ARMS proxy circle and other site boundaries for LA 107704, LA 108123, LA 121916, LA 121919, and LA 138016 to be inaccurately depicted on the ARMS...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Tyler Sutton

In 2006, HHM, Inc. conducted a cultural resources survey consisting of an archaeological survey and a historic resources survey of the Naval Weapons Station family housing in support of the Public/Private Venture (PPV) initiative for the transfer of family housing units to private control. The archaeological survey confirmed the location of a previously identified multi-component site (38BK1271) that included a historic cemetery.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Blair Atcheson. Alexis Catsambis.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Church.

In 2007, archaeologists with C & C Technologies published a debris distribution model from data collected during a Deep Shipwreck Project with the former U.S. Minerals Management Service.  The researchers have continued to refine the formula with additional shipwreck information.  Studying the Gulfoil site at a depth of 534 meters BSL, as part of the Reefs, Rigs and Wrecks Program illustrated that a large portion of associated wreck debris fell outside the predictive distribution model and more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Church. Daniel Warren. Robert Westrick.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce G. Karolle. Thomas B. McGrath.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Chief of Naval Operations.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text R. D. Heinl, Jr..

The Defense of Wake is one of a series of operational monographs designed to provide both student and casual readers with thorough and complete narratives of the major operations in which Marine Corps units participated during World War II. As a sufficient number of monographs are brought to completion, these, in turn, will be condensed and edited for final compilation into official operational history.

DOCUMENT Citation Only War Plans Section.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Department of Defense. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers.

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.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matt Bischoff.

With the German Afrika Korps driving across the North African desert with impunity in 1941 and 1942, the U.S. Army realized that it might be called upon to assist its British ally in the fight against the Germans and Italians. Egypt, along with the strategic Suez Canal and the Middle East in general, were in danger of being lost to the Axis powers. It became imperative that the Axis be expelled from North Africa. The U.S. Army, however, had never fought a large-scale war in a desert environment....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matt Bischoff.

With the German Afrika Korps driving across the North African desert with impunity in 1941 and 1942, the U.S. Army realized that it might be called upon to assist its British ally in the fight against the Germans and Italians. Egypt, along with the strategic Suez Canal and the Middle East in general, was in danger of being lost to the Axis powers. It became imperative that the Axis be expelled from North Africa. The U.S. Army, however, had never fought a large-scale war in a desert environment....