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Maritime National Historic Landmarks: World War II Sites

 

As part of the 1988 National Historic Landmark (NHL) theme study, "The Maritime Heritage of the United States," historians from the NHL Program and the Maritime Heritage Program collected NHL nominations for World War II sites. The list is updated as new NHLs are designated.

 

Adak Army Base and Adak Naval Operating Base

Adak Island, Aleutian Islands, AK
Period of significance: 1942-45
Designated an NHL: 1987
NHL nomination and images

 

Attu Battlefield and U.S. Army and Navy Airfields on Attu

Aleutian Islands, AK
Period of significance: 1942-45
Designated an NHL: 1985
NHL nomination and images

 

CINCPAC Headquarters

Honolulu County, HI
Period of significance: 1942-45
Designated an NHL: 1987
NHL nomination and images

 

Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base and Fort Mears, U.S. Army

Aleutian Islands, AK
Period of significance: 1940-45
Designated an NHL: 1985
NHL nomination and images

 

Japanese Occupation Site, Kiska Island

Kiska Island, AK
Period of significance: 1942-43
Designated an NHL: 1985
NHL nomination and images

 

Kaneohe Naval Air Station

Honolulu County, HI
Period of significance: 1941
Designated an NHL: 1987
NHL nomination and images

 

Kodiak Naval Operating Base and Forts Greely and Abercrombie

Kodiak Island Borough, AK
Period of significance: 1941-44
Designated an NHL: 1985
NHL nomination and images

 

Kwajalein Island Battlefield

Kwajalein Island, Marshall Islands
Period of significance: 1944
Designated an NHL: 1985
NHL nomination and images

 

Landing Beaches; Aslito/Isley Field; and Marpi Point, Saipan Island

Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Period of significance: 1944-45
Designated an NHL: 1985
NHL nomination and images

 

Peleliu Battlefield

Peleliu Island, Palau
Period of significance: 1944
Designated an NHL: 1985
NHL nomination and images

 

Roi-Namur

Roi-Namur Island, Marshall Islands
Period of significance: 1944
Designated an NHL: 1985
NHL nomination and images

 

Sitka Naval Operating Base and U.S. Army Coastal Defenses

Sitka, AK
Period of significance: 1939-43
Designated an NHL: 1986
NHL nomination and images

 

Tinian Landing Beaches, Ushi Point Field & North Field, Tinian Island

Tinian Island, Northern Mariana Islands
Period of significance: 1944-45
Designated an NHL: 1985
NHL nomination and images

 

United States Naval Base, Pearl Harbor

Honolulu County, HI
Period of significance: 1941
Designated an NHL: 1964
NHL nomination and images

 

Wake Island

Wake Island
Period of significance: 1941-45
Designated an NHL: 1985
NHL nomination and images

 

World War II Facilities at Midway

Midway Islands
Period of significance: 1941-42
Designated an NHL: 1987
NHL nomination and images