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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGBV_berlin-airlift_Arlington-VA.html
In memory of the United States military personnel who served on the Berlin Airlift, 26 June 1948 to 30 September 1949.
[Insignia of:] Berlin Airlift Veterans Assoc.[Renderings of two U.S. transport aircraft:]
Presented by the Berlin Airlift …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGBN_civil-war-unknowns-monument_Arlington-VA.html
Beneath this stone repose the bones of two thousand, one hundred and eleven unknown soldiers gathered after the war from the fields of Bull Run and the route to the Rappahannock. Their remains could not be identified, but their names and deaths ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGBG_mcclellan-gate_Arlington-VA.html
[East face, top of the arch:]
McCLELLAN
Here rest 15,585 of the 315,555 citizens who died in defense of our country from 1861 to 1865.
"On fame's eternal camping ground their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGAR_swiss-internees_Arlington-VA.html
In memory ofthe gallant combat aircrewmen of the USAAF 8th, 9th, 12th, and 15th Air Forces who were left in Switzerland, 1943-1945 during WWII with "everlasting friends."
[Insignia of:]Swiss Internees Association, Inc. U.S.A.Camp MoloneyFormer …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGAO_173d-airborne-brigade-sep_Arlington-VA.html
In commemoration of all Sky Soldiers whose valor and sacrifice in defense of South Vietnam must never be forgotten.
"All gave some - Some gave all"
[Renderings of military insignia:]Combat Infantryman Badge - 173rd Airborne Bde. - Paratroo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFZW_uss-serpens-memorial_Arlington-VA.html
Herein rest those who lost their lives in the sinking of USS SerpensWorld War IIJanuary 29, 1945.Edwin A Ables EM2 USCGR · John C Aiken III LT USCGR · Roy G Anderson PHM2 USCGR · Edwin F Antkowiak COX USCGR · Lawrence L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEUQ_transportation_Arlington-VA.html
Near this point the Alexandria Canal crossed Four Mile Run, connecting Alexandria docks and railyards to Georgetown and western Maryland from 1843 to 1886. To the east were the turnpike and railroad. In 1896 the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Ve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMELG_general-philip-kearny-memorial_Arlington-VA.html
[on base of statue by Edward Clark Potter, south face:]
KEARNY
[west face:]
New Jersey honors her most distinguished soldier.Erected 1914
[north face:]
Major General Philip KearnyBorn June 1, 1814
[east face:]
Gave his left …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD5R_mason-mansion-about-1900_Arlington-VA.html
John Mason* had an elegant summer home on the small rise you see behind the sign. From about 1792 to 1830 it was a center of Washington and Georgetown society. A few bricks are all that remain of its former splendor.
* Son of George Mason, aut…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD5K_american-indian-villages-and-captain-john-smith_Arlington-VA.html
On June 16,1608, Englishman Captain John Smith and fourteen other men from the Jamestown colony entered the Potomac River aboard a two-ton open barge in search of a glistering metal the [natives] told us they had from Patowmeck. They explored upri…