Patriot Movement AZ near National Memorial Cemetery Phoenix Flags across America
Patriot Movement AZ near National Memorial Cemetery Phoenix Flags across America
Hundreds remember the fallen at Phoenix' National Cemetery
Memorial Day is about honoring the fallen and hundreds did that in their own way at Phoenix's National Memorial Cemetery.
National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona
Drive through of the cemetery taken during a visit to 'see' Paul. Amazing to see the representation of lives lost for our country.
Morenci Vietnam Veterans & National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona & Arizona Military Museum
Take a look at the story of nine young men left the Arizona mining town of Morenci to serve in Vietnam. Only three returned. Since 1979, the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix has been the last resting place for veterans and their families. The Arizona Military Museum has been around for about 30 years, housed in an historic adobe building in Phoenix's Papago Park.
A Tour of Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza
The plaza was established on March 9, 1978, by the Arizona Legislature in honor of Governor Wesley Bolin, who had died a mere 5 days previously on March 4. Prior to the resolution creating the plaza, it had simply been a part of the Legislative Governmental Mall. While the plaza exists only as a part of the Mall, in common usage the terms are interchangeable and the name of the plaza is often used in preference to the Mall.
Much like the National Mall on which it is loosely based, the Legislative Governmental Mall is intended as an open-air public space featuring monuments, memorials and gardens. Some of these monuments were erected prior to the inception of the Plaza, such as the monument to the USS Arizona which was dedicated over a year earlier on December 7, 1976. The Plaza, when dedicated, included these existing memorials and all subsequent memorials have been located within the boundaries of the plaza.
Also located in the Plaza is the memorial dedicated to the 158th Infantry Regiment, the oldest and most prestigious unit in Arizona. The monument, based off a captured Japanese monument in the Philippines, stands as one of the few if only memorials to the regiment which served as one of the premier unit of World War II.
Owing to its location directly in front of the state capitol, the plaza has also become a meeting place and a focal point for protests and demonstrations, such as the 2006 United States immigration reform protests, with Phoenix participants culminating in a rally at the plaza. Over 100,000 participants took part in the display.[2][3]
Monuments and memorials
Anchor from USS Arizona on display at Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza, Phoenix, AZ.
The restored gun barrel from the USS Arizona on display in Wesley Bolin Plaza
The breech of the restored USS Arizona gun barrel.
The plaza is home to 30 memorials dedicated to topics including important individuals, organizations, and events. Among the more prominent are the mast, anchor, and a 14-inch gun of the USS Arizona, memorials to major wars such as World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, the Korean War and Desert Storm, and America's first monument of the Bill of Rights.
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2015 Memorial Day National Cemetery of Arizona
Mass Grave Sites Phoenix, AZ
Mass graves are being dug at Phoenix National Memorial Cemetery. I also happened upon another cemetery right around the corner which is expanding as well. I spoke with a construction worker and he stated that these are crypts and the gravel is to keep them from shifting. Make your own decision.
***Watch the video response from Larzabeth. FEMA Coffins found at this location!***
Many have wanted to know where this is located in Phoenix. The second site is the Phoenix National Memorial Cemetery at Pinnacle Peak Rd and Cave Creek. You can also google the cemetery name.
Arizona National Cemetery, Phoenix
Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem Arizona.
Dedicated on 11/11/11 at 11:11 Am. The Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem Arizona was funded mostly by donations.
The song is Hero from Singer/Songwriter Raul ODonnal who lives in Anthem.
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Anthem Veterans Memorial Time Lapse
Courtesy: Anthem Community Council
The veterans memorial in a small town in Arizona draws people from all over the country each year to see what happens to it at precisely 11:11 am.
Veterans Day and Memorial Day Explained
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Iwo Jima Memorial - Sacaton, Arizona
Veterans Memorial Park in Sacaton, Arizona, is filled with honor and remembrance, including two life-sized bronze statues of Ira H. Hayes and Mathew B. Juan. Ira Hamilton Hayes was a Pima Native American and a United States Marine who was one of the six flag raisers immortalized in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II. Hayes was an enrolled member of the Gila River Pima Indian Reservation located in Pinal and Maricopa counties in Arizona.
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ACTV Presents: Anthem Veterans Memorial
Produced by Kaylee Adams, NAU.
2018 © Arizona Capitol Television
The National Cemetery of Arizona welcomes thousands to honor the fallen
Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery 10-13-17
Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery video taken 10-13-17. By Sean Shambo
Families take to Phoenix National Cemetery to remember fallen family member
Families spent Memorial Day at Phoenix's National Cemetery to remember their loved ones who paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Flag Placement - National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona - Memorial Day 2014
This is a time-lapse movie of the placing of flags at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona on the Saturday before Memorial Day in 2014. Boy Scout troops, Girl Scout troops, Cub Scout packs, various veterans groups, and many others placed 43,000 flags in about 45 minutes.
WORLDS LARGEST us air force AIRCRAFT GRAVEYARD documentary
An interesting documentary about the world famous US Air Force bone yard for surplus or out dated aircraft. Davis–Monthan Air Force Base (DM AFB) (IATA: DMA, ICAO: KDMA, FAA LID: DMA) is a United States Air Force base located within the city limits approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) south-southeast of downtown Tucson, Arizona. It was established in 1925 as Davis-Monthan Landing Field. The host unit headquartered at Davis–Monthan is the 355th Fighter Wing assigned to Twelfth Air Force, part of Air Combat Command (ACC). The base is best known as the location of the Air Force Materiel Command's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), the aircraft boneyard for all excess military and government aircraft.
Overview[edit]
Davis–Monthan Air Force Base is a key ACC installation. The 355th Fighter Wing (355 FW) is the host unit, providing medical, logistical, mission and operational support to all assigned units. This wing's combat mission is providing A-10 Thunderbolt II close air support and OA-10 forward air controllers to ground forces worldwide. The 355 FW provides initial and recurrent training to all U.S. Air Force A-10, OA-10 and EC-130 pilots and crews. The 355th is also the ACC's executive agent for INF and START treaty compliance.
One of the wing's tenant units, the 55th Electronic Combat Group, is tasked to provide command, control and communications countermeasures in support of tactical forces with its EC-130H aircraft; and, employing the EC-130E aircraft, provide airborne command, control and communications capabilities for managing tactical air operations in war and other contingencies worldwide.
Two other major tenants, the 563rd Rescue Group (structured under the 23d Wing, Moody Air Force Base) and 943rd Rescue Group (structured under the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base), are tasked to provide combat search and rescue support worldwide.
As the location of the Air Force Materiel Command's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), Davis–Monthan Air Force Base is the sole aircraft boneyard for excess military and government aircraft. Tucson's dry climate and alkali soil made it an ideal location for aircraft storage and preservation.
History
The base was named in honor of World War I pilots Lieutenants Samuel H. Davis (1896–1921) and Oscar Monthan (1885–1924), both Tucson natives. Davis, who attended the University of Arizona prior to enlisting in the Army in 1917, died in a Florida aircraft accident in 1921. Monthan enlisted in the Army as a private in 1917, was commissioned as a ground officer in 1918, and later became a pilot; he was killed in the crash of a Martin bomber in Hawaii in 1924.
Origins[edit]
In 1919, the Tucson Chamber of Commerce aviation committee established the nation's first municipally owned airfield at the current site of the Tucson Rodeo Grounds. The rapid increase in aviation activities meant a move in 1927 to the site which is now Davis–Monthan Air Force Base. After the City of Tucson acquired land southeast of town for a runway in 1925, Charles Lindbergh, fresh from his nonstop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, flew his Spirit of St. Louis to Tucson in 1927 to dedicate Davis-Monthan Field, then the largest municipal airport in the United States.
Military presence at the field began when Sergeant Simpson relocated his fuel and service operation to the site on 6 October 1927. He kept a log containing names of the field's customers, including Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Foulois, and Jimmy Doolittle. Doolittle, awarded the Medal of Honor for his 1942 Tokyo raid, was the first military customer at the field on 9 October 1927. The combination of civil and military operations worked well until the early 1940s, when military requirements began to require the relocation of civil aviation activities.
World War II[edit]
Davis-Monthan Airport became Tucson Army Air Field in 1940, as the United States prepared for World War II. The first assigned U.S. Army Air Corps units were the 1st Bomb Wing, 41st Bomb Group and 31st Air Base Group, activating on 30 April 1941 with Lieutenant Colonel Ames S. Albro Sr. as commanding officer.[5] In its military role, the base became known as Davis-Monthan Army Air Field on 3 December 1941. Air Corps leaders utilize the airfield, sending Douglas B-18 Bolo, Consolidated B-24 Liberator and Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers, for training and observation missions.
Postwar years
With the end of the war, operations at the base came to a virtual standstill. It was then the base was selected as a storage site for hundreds of decommissioned aircraft, with the activation of the 4105th Army Air Force Unit. The 4105th oversaw the storage of excess B-29s and C-47 Gooney Birds. Tucson's low humidity and alkali soil made it an ideal location for aircraft storage and preservation, awaiting cannibalization or possible reuse — a mission that has continued to this day.
Cold War[edit]
Military Museum / POW Camp Phoenix Arizona
The Arizona Military Museum is operated by the Arizona National Guard Historical Society. The Museum's 25 exhibits contain all varieties of artifacts including uniforms, weapons, newspapers, maps, and vehicles that showcase the history of the armed forces in the state. Bring the family and explore Arizona's great military history. The Museum is FREE and open from 1-4 pm Saturday and Sunday.
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Papago Park in Arizona
Travel with me to Papago Park in Arizona.
The music in the video is “Memories” (bensound.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: