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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 ]
Papago Park Military Reservation is a facility of the Arizona Army National Guard in Phoenix, Arizona that is home to the Papago Army Aviation Support Facility, Papago Army Heliport and the Arizona Military Museum. [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 ...
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
The Great Papago Escape was the largest Axis prisoner-of-war escape to occur from an American facility during World War II.On the night of December 23, 1944, twenty-five Germans tunneled out of Camp Papago Park, near Phoenix, Arizona, and fled into the surrounding desert.
3036th Army Air Forces Base Unit; 1 May 1944–1 November 1945 Was: Vincent Air Force Base (1951–1959) Now: Marine Corps Air Station Yuma (IATA: YUM, ICAO: KYUM) Sub-bases of Yuma Army Air Field [1] Dateland Army Air Field, 10 miles (16 km) east of Yuma; Now: Airfield closed and abandoned. Laguna Army Airfield, 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Yuma
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.