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[1] [2] Formerly, it was also home to the World War II POW Camp Papago Park that is adjacent to Papago Park. The Reservation was established on April 21, 1930 by the 71st Congress. [3] On Halloween of 2014, a crew from the 2nd Battalion, 285th Aviation Regiment, stationed at Papago Army Heliport, dropped candy on a local Phoenix neighborhood. [4]
Camp Papago Park was a prisoner of war (POW) facility located in Papago Park in the eastern part of Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It consisted of five compounds, four for enlisted men and one for officers .
Papago Park is a hilly desert park covering 1200 acres in its Phoenix extent and 296 acres in its Tempe extent. Tempe refers to its section of the park specifically as Tempe Papago Park. Papago Park is notable for its many distinctive geological formations and its wide variety of typical desert plants, including the giant saguaro cactus.
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Eloise David and Marcia Spark, "Arizona Folk Art Recalls History of Papago Indians", The Clarion, Fall 1978. Jason H. Gart, Papago Park: A History of Hole-in-the-Rock from 1848 to 1995. Pueblo Grande Museum Occasional Papers No. 1, (1997).
The Arizona Army National Guard Arsenal raw adobe building was constructed in 1936 and is located at 5636 E. McDowell Rd. It served as the National Guard arsenal building until WW II when it was converted into a maintenance shop for the German prisoners of war who were held in a camp located in what is now the Papago Park Military Reservation.
Arizona's Camp Florence, on the Florence Military Reservation, was the first permanent alien enemy camp constructed during World War II. Construction began during 1942 to house 3000 internees, with room to expand to 6000. The initial construction budget was $4.8 million.
Papago Army Heliport (FAA LID: P18) is a United States Army heliport at Papago Park Military Reservation.It is home to the 2nd Battalion, 285th Aviation Regiment.The airport is 6 miles (5.2 nmi; 9.7 km) east of the central business district of Phoenix, a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.