6 Apr 1900

United States
13 Dec 1913

United States
12 Jan 1923

United States
  • Ira Hayes was born on the Gila River Indian Reservation in Sacaton, Arizona, United States. ww2dbase [Ira Hayes | Sacaton, Arizona | CPC]
23 Dec 1944

United States
24 Dec 1944

United States
  • Guards at the Camp Papago Park in Phoenix, Arizona, United States realized that 25 prisoners of war had escaped on the previous day. ww2dbase [Camp Papago Park | Phoenix, Arizona | CPC]
1 Jan 1945

United States
  • A group of German prisoners of war, having escaped from Camp Papago Park in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, were captured 30 miles north of the US-Mexico border. ww2dbase [Camp Papago Park | Arizona | CPC]
28 Jan 1945

United States
  • Captain Jurgen Wattenberg, a German prisoner of war at Camp Papago Park in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, was captured in Phoenix. ww2dbase [Camp Papago Park | Phoenix, Arizona | CPC]
31 Jan 1945

United States
  • [appx date] Fragments of a paper balloon envelope from a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb were found near Nogales, Arizona, United States near the Mexican border. ww2dbase [Nogales, Arizona | DS]
  • [appx date] Fragments of a paper balloon envelope from a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb were found near Nogales, Arizona, United States near the Mexican border. ww2dbase [Fu-Go | Nogales, Arizona | DS]
24 Jan 1955

United States



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