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Successful management of wildland fire is a team effort. National Park Service (NPS) staff in Alaska have formed a unique partnership with the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service (AFS), which has helped to turn challenges into opportunities, and increased operational efficiency in utilization of helicopters for fire suppression. This partnership has benefited not only Alaska, but also the wildland firefighting effort in several western states.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
The JN-4 Jenny: The Plane that Taught America to Fly
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The Curtiss JN-4 Jenny is synonymous with the “barn storming” era of aviation, and is truly the airplane that taught American pilots of the 1916-1925 era how to fly. This training airplane, designed by a team working for the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company in 1914-1915, was built in the thousands in during World War I to train US servicemen how to fly.
Grand Canyon National Park
Desert View Watchtower
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Desert View Watchtower Retail Store (View Room) is open daily: 8 am to 6 pm. The upper floors of the tower are open, when staffing allows, from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. The last tower access is at 5:00 pm, with the stairs closed for the day at 5:30 pm. A ticket system admits 25 people with a 20-minute time limit. A National Historic Landmark, the Watchtower was constructed in 1932.The design by Mary Colter is based on Ancestral Puebloan architecture found in the southwest.
Boston National Historical Park
Walter Budd Wimley
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Walt Wimley enlisted in the US Navy on September 11, 1942. He served aboard USS CASSIN YOUNG in the ship's engineering department as a Machinist Mate 1st Class in 1944 and 1945. He died in action aboard Cassin Young off the coast of Okinawa on July 30, 1945.
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Every summer, the NPS Structural Fire Program recruits and places fire protection engineering, fire protection administration, and fire investigation students in NPS sites across the country to assist parks with meeting their structural fire management responsibilities. These interns bring their knowledge of fire protection systems and prevention strategies to the parks; in turn, parks offer vital work experience that the interns can take into future careers.
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The NPS Structural Fire Protection Internship Program is celebrating 10 years of park structural fire protection. The program provides work experience for students in fire protection engineering, fire protection, administration, and fire investigation while the students complete critical structural fire management responsibilities for the park. Join us on a photographic journey to celebrate the successes of this program!
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In 1940 the federal government allocated funds for the improvement of Wright Field and to create the United States Army Air Corps. Wright Field participated in diverse military operations during World War II. Montgomery County residents joined in scrap drives, grew victory gardens, lived with rationing and blackout regulations, and served in civil defense programs. Today the community is home to a number of institutions that commemorate the home front.
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar
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Alice Dunbar Nelson was a poet, critic, journalist and activist who was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
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Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., was born in Washington, D.C. in 1912. He graduated from West Point in 1936. He was the fourth African American to graduate from West Point. During World War II, he led the renowned Tuskegee Airmen. He attained the rank of four-star general in 1998. He died in 2002 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Touchable Aircraft for Young Visitors “Flies” in to Pearson Air Museum
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In January 2024, Fort Vancouver NHS unveiled a touchable Liberty aircraft in the lobby of Pearson Air Museum! The aircraft was designed and constructed by NPS exhibit specialist volunteers and students at Vancouver’s iTech Preparatory.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
Aliante Parkway Kiosk
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This interpretive kiosk is located at N. Aliante Pkwy & W. Moonlight Falls Ave. The kiosk describes the history of scientific research at Tule Springs, safety tips, park regulations, and a map of the monument. This area features relatively flat terrain, creosote desert scrub habitat, and views of the Las Vegas and Sheep ranges.
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When Thomas Aves's daughter came from New Orleans to visit him at his residence at 21 Pinckney Street, she brought an enslaved girl named Med. Med became the center of a 1836 court case that ruled in favor of freeing enslaved people brought to a free state.
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A page containing information about all-female and all-veteran wildland fire crews the NPS hosts in conjunction with conservation corps in various states.
Yukon - Charley Rivers National Preserve
National Park Service, Native Crew Join Forces to Protect Values at Risk
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The Tanana Chiefs Conference Fire Crew, which consists mostly of Alaskan Natives tribal members, joined with the NPS Alaska Region Eastern Area Fire Management Program to complete a fuels project in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve during summer 2014 as part of NPS efforts to create fire-adapted human communities.
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Did you know that the Tuskegee Airmen included women? Sergeant Amelia Jones worked for two years during WWII in the 99th Pursuit Squadron under Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, commander of the Tuskegee Airmen. She was honored for her service in 2014.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Dayton, OH
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Dayton, Ohio is known for cash registers, Cheez-It crackers, pop top cans, and being the Birthplace of Aviation. However, the city has another important but widely unknown accolade on its long list of innovations and inventions: the scientific work done during the top-secret Dayton Project. The work done throughout the city in the 1940s culminated in the polonium initiators used in the atomic bombs developed by the Manhattan Project during WWII.
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Considered the oldest public park in the United States, Boston Common played an important role in the history of conservation, landscape architecture, military and political history, and recreation in Massachusetts. The Common and the adjoining Public Garden are among the greatest amenities and most visited outdoor public spaces in Boston.
River Raisin National Battlefield Park
Hull's Trace
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In 2014 the River Raisin National Battlefield Park established the Hull’s Trace Unit as a satellite park. It is located at 36495 W. Jefferson Ave., Brownstown Charter Township, Michigan. In June of 1812, General Hull ordered a road to connect Fort Detroit with rest of the United States. A part of this corduroy road remains 200 years later near the mouth of the Huron River and is the only known log remnant of the first U.S. military federal road.
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Northern Arizona University (NAU) graduate student Matt Behrens, with assistance from the NPS Alaska Western Area Fire Management Fire Ecology team, instrumented several of the piles with high-heat temperature sensors to record the flux of heat into the soil column. A first look at retrieved data showed a several hour delay in the transfer of heat through the organic-rich duff layers, and minimal soil heating effects beyond the pile edge.
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This series of lesson plans about the WWII home front, focus on Savannah and Chatham County, Georgia, as an American World War II Heritage City. The lessons contain photographs, readings, and primary sources, with optional extension activities. The lessons highlight specific contributions, such as shipbuilding and civilian contributions. The lessons also connect to larger themes and understandings of the US home front during wartime.