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Papago Park was designated a reservation for the local Maricopa and Pima tribes of Native Americans in 1879. It became the Papago–Saguaro National Monument in 1914, but this status was recalled by Congress , April 7, 1930, because the area was not considered suitable for a national monument. [ 5 ]
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 .
[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]
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Arizona for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers.. Most of these airfields were under the command of Fourth Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (A predecessor of the current-day United States Air Force Air Education and Training Command).
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
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 .
The main reservation, Tohono Oʼodham Indian Reservation, which lies in central Pima, southwestern Pinal, and southeastern Maricopa counties, and has a land area of 11,243.098 square kilometres (4,340.984 sq mi) and a 2000 census population of 8,376 persons. The land area is 97.48 percent of the reservation's total, and the population is 77.65 ...
Papago is a populated place situated in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. [2] It has an estimated elevation of 656 feet (200 m) above sea level. [ 1 ] It is located on the Union Pacific Railroad 's Phoenix Subdivision .