Former National Monument of the United States
The World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument was a U.S. National Monument honoring events, people, and sites of the Pacific Theater engagement of the United States during World War II . The John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act , signed into law March 12, 2019, abolished the National Monument, replacing it with Pearl Harbor National Memorial , Aleutian Islands World War II National Monument , and Tule Lake National Monument .[2]
Sites
The USS Arizona Memorial and the mooring quays of Battleship Row , at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Granaries at Tule Lake Unit , Modoc County, California .
Atka B-24D Liberator on Atka Island , Alaska.
The national monument included 9 sites in 3 states , totaling 6,310 acres (2,550 ha):
Hawaii – sites administered by the National Park Service
Alaska – sites administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service as part of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
California – site jointly administered by both NPS and FWS
Administration
The monument was administered by the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service . The actual shipwrecks of the Arizona , Utah , and Oklahoma were not parts of the monument and remained under the jurisdiction of the US Navy .
Establishment
The monument was created on December 5, 2008, through a proclamation issued by President George W. Bush under the authority of the Antiquities Act of 1906 . The proclamation date was selected in anticipation of the 67th anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor , on December 7, 2008. This was the first proclamation of a national monument in Alaska since passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) in 1980.[3]
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