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Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Xunaa Shuká Hít (Huna Ancestors' House)
- Type: Place
Xunaa Shuká Hít—roughly translated as "Huna Ancestor's House"—is the first permanent clan house in Glacier Bay since Łingít villages were destroyed by an advancing glacier over 250 years ago.
War In The Pacific National Historical Park
Assan/Asan Beach
- Type: Place
During the Japanese occupation of Guam, CHamoru were forced to build defenses on the beach, including the pillboxes and bunkers that can still be seen today, in preparation for the American invasion. That invasion came on July 21, 1944, W Day for Guam. While a simultaneous attack took place five miles south at Hågat, the Third Marine Division landed on the 2,500-yard Assan Beach, marking the start of the Battle of Guam.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Pollinator Garden
- Type: Place
The pollinator garden at Resaca de la Palma Battlefield helps provide plants for use by local wildlife in a landscape where their habitat is highly fragmented.
- Type: Article
Fort Des Moines is a military installation in Des Moines, Iowa. During World War I, the fort served as the first and only training site for African American officers. During World War II, Fort Des Moines was the first training site for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), and the only training site for WAC and WAAC officers.
Boston National Historical Park
Joseph James Barnes
- Type: Person
Joseph J. Barnes was born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 27, 1917. He enlisted in the Navy on September 23, 1942 as an Apprentice Seaman (AS). After studying to be a machinist at a Service School, Barnes graduated as a fireman 2nd class. In 1943, he reported to destroyer training before joining the crew of the USS Cassin Young. In serving on the Cassin Young, he joined the Pacific front of World War II. Barnes was killed in action from a kamikaze attack.
Boston National Historical Park
John James Takacs
- Type: Person
John was one of six children (three boys and three girls) of Stephen and Elizabeth Takacs, who immigrated from Hungary. John grew up in a Bridgeport, Connecticut. In mid-December he arrived in California and on December 31, 1943, he joined the crew of USS Cassin Young (DD-973). Cassin Young was hit by a second kamikaze on July 30, 1945. Forty-five sailors were wounded and 22 were killed. WT2c(T) John Takacs was one of them.
Boston National Historical Park
Jasper Clarence McCartney
- Type: Person
Jasper McCartney spent most of his life at sea, enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1930 at age 20. In the 1930s, he served on three destroyers, including the USS West Virginia where he worked as a fireman and watertender. In 1940, McCartney joined the crew of the USS Arkansas and was promoted to chief watertender. He was assigned to the USS Cassin Young a few days after its commissioning in December, 1943. McCartney was killed in action during a kamikaze attack on the destroyer.
- Type: Person
Cuff Whittemore was present at Battle Road in Capt. Benjamin Locke's militia. He later enlisted in Arlington, Massachusetts in Capt. Benjamin Locke’s company, in Col. Thomas Gardner’s regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill in the redoubt.
Boston National Historical Park
Clyde Milton Reasoner
- Type: Person
Clyde Reasoner enlisted in the Navy on November 14, 1944. His mother signed a consent form, because he was only 17 years old. Reasoner reported for duty aboard USS Cassin Young (DD-793) on April 26, 1945. In the early morning hours of July 30, 1945, Cassin Young was hit by a kamikaze for a second time. At 18 years old, Clyde Reasoner was the youngest sailor aboard Cassin Young to die in action.
- Type: Article
From July 1775 through April 1776, General George Washington used the abandoned Vassall House in Cambridge as his military headquarters during the Siege of Boston. In order to organize, administer, and command the army, Washington relied on his council of war, comprised of the senior-ranking general officers, and his "military family," comprised of the staff of secretaries and aides de camp at headquarters.
- Type: Person
A lawyer and influential secretary to George Washington, Robert Harrison helped manage the paperwork and communication for Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Despite personal struggles, he left Virginia in the beginning of the war to serve as an aide-de-camp at Washington’s headquarters in Cambridge. Harrison became a trusted and dependable secretary to Washington during the war and went on to become the chief judge of Maryland.
- Type: Place
Edificio Comunidad de Orgullo Gay de Puerto Rico, commonly known as “Casa Orgulllo,” served as the meeting hall for the first official gay/lesbian organization established in Puerto Rico. Founded in 1974, Comunidad de Orgullo Gay was the first organized attempt to confront social, political and legal discrimination against the local LGBTQ community.
Acadia National Park
Oldfarm: Station Eight
- Type: Place
Sieur de Monts National Monument
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
Home of Daisy and L.C. Bates
- Type: Place
The Daisy and L.C. Bates Home is nationally significant for its role as the de facto command post during the Central High School desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas.
- Type: Person
John Laurens, born to a wealthy planter family in South Carolina, received a republican education in Switzerland and England. Upon his return to South Carolina to fight in the American Revolution, he radically proposed to recruit slaves as soldiers in return for their freedom. An aide-de-camp to General Washington and later a lieutenant colonel of the Continental Army with a field command, he served bravely in many key battles, only to die in a meaningless skirmish in 1782.
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Henry Bakeman
- Type: Person
Henry Bakeman enlisted in April 1781, after British and Mohawk troops had destroyed his home village of Stone Arabia in October 1780. Involved first in carrying packages from one Patriot fort to another, resulting in “many skirmishes with the Indiana & Tories,” by late 1782 Bakeman found himself involved in what would be the last engagement of the Revolutionary War. Disaster awaited them. Bakeman’s story was well-documented through his pension record in 1834.
George Washington Birthplace National Monument
George Washington Spy Code
- Type: Article
General George Washington used spy codes to send important messages to his officers. Use a spy code from Washington's papers to decipher important words in a letter from him to the Marquis De Lafayette concerning trapping Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.
Boston National Historical Park
Byron A. Smith
- Type: Person
Byron A. Smith served in the US Navy during World War II, voluntarily enlisting as an apprentice seaman (AS) in 1943. Prior to serving in the Navy, Smith worked at the Campbell, Wyant and Cannon Foundry Company in Michigan, a company that provided critical contributions to the defense industry. After completing different training schools, Smith was assigned to the USS Cassin Young. Smith was killed when a kamikaze attacked the destroyer.
Boston National Historical Park
Billy Joe Boegen
- Type: Person
Billy Joe Boegen enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1941. He served on the USS Yorktown, the USS West Virginia, and the USS Salt Lake City before he joined the crew of the USS Cassin Young in 1945. He received the Purple Heart and the Silver Star for his service on the destroyer. When a kamikaze attacked the USS Cassin Young on July 30, 1945, Boegen was fatally wounded and died the following day.
Boston National Historical Park
Ben Conn
- Type: Person
Ben Conn served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After attending specialized radar training in Hawaii, Conn joined the crew of the USS Cassin Young. He was killed in action while serving on the USS Cassin Young when kamikaze attacked the destroyer.