World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument facts for kids

Quick facts for kids World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument
Location	Alaska, California & Hawaii, USA
Area	6,310 acres (25.5 km2)
Created	December 5, 2008
Visitors	1,574,156 (in 2015)
Governing body	National Park Service & Fish and Wildlife Service
Website	World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument

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.

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

• At Pearl Harbor on Oahu in Hawaii.
• USS Arizona Memorial and Visitor Center
• USS Utah Memorial
• USS Oklahoma Memorial
• Six Chief Petty Officer Bungalows on Ford Island
• Mooring Quays F6, F7, and F8, which formed part of Battleship Row

 Alaska – sites administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service as park of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge

• Battle of Attu battlefield remnants on Attu Island, Aleutian Islands
• Japanese occupation of Kiska Island, Aleutian Islands
• Atka B-24D Liberator crash site on Atka Island, Aleutian Islands

 California – site jointly administered by both NPS and FWS

• Tule Lake Unit, World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument (on the site of an internment camp for Japanese Americans), in Modoc County, northeastern California. (41°53′22″N 121°22′29″W / 41.88944°N 121.37472°W / 41.88944; -121.37472 (Tule Lake Unit))

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.

• Proclamation 8327 of December 5, 2008, Establishment of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, 73 FR 75293 (2008-12-10).