Musket demo at Ft Montgomery. #RevWar #NY
Live from Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.. After the broadcast ends, follow the #NPS100 Virtual Park Circuit to Colonial National Historical Park - Historic Jamestowne for the full schedule visit go.nps.gov/circuit #FindYourPark
Park Ranger at INDE
A National Park Service Ranger gives a talk about the importance of Independence Hall and how the Founding Fathers of the United States met there to debate, compromise, and create a new nation. March 13, 2016. #FindYourPark #PA
The employees at the 1201 I Street office welcomed National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis this afternoon to share some birthday cake! #NPS99 [Video: Greg Hindsley]
ABPP Historian Greg visited Boston National Historical Park this past weekend. Here is a video of a musket demonstration by National Park Service Ranger Eric Hanson Plass at the Bunker Hill Monument. Look for more photos from this trip soon! #RevWar #MA #FindYourPark
VE-Day WWII Flyover - 'Missing Man' formation
Missing Man included:
- P-51 Mustang
- Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (Fighter of the Flying Tigers painted w/ a shark's mouth, could outdive most adversaries)
- Vought F4U Corsair (First U.S. fighter to fly faster than 400 mph, level. Dip in wings)
- Grumman TBM Avenger (Heavy, carrier-based torpedo bomber w/ a round gun turret).
The Corsair rises above the formation and flies off in memory of fallen pilots. #VEDay70 #WWII #DC
VE-Day WWII Flyover - Boeing B-29 Superfortress
Boeing B-29 Superfortress: The bomber that ended the war; the only one ever to drop atomic bombs in combat. Long, slender fuselage; talk like a B-17. #VEDay70 #WWII #DC
VE-Day WWII Flyover - North American P-51 Mustang
North American P-51 Mustang: Possibly the war's best escort fighter; had a long, pointed nose, underbelly air scoop, low, squared-off wings, and dash. #VEDay70 #WWII #DC
VE-Day WWII Flyover - Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Consolidated B-24 Liberator: Long but portly, the B-24 looked like trouble. Four-engine, long-range bomber with horizontal tail and oval vertical stabilizers. #VEDay70 #WWII #DC
VE-Day WWII Flyover - Grumman F4F Wildcat
Grumman F4F Wildcat: Short, stout, ship-based fighter, it was less capable than the Japanese Zero, but U.S. pilots compensated with effective tactics. #VEDay70 #WWII #DC
VE-Day WWII Flyover - North American AT-6/SNJ
North American AT-6/SNJ: Trainer with a 600-hp radial engine; low wing, heart-shaped horizontal tails, and greenhouse canopy. Taught pilots how to fly and shoot. #VEDay70 #WWII #DC
Lincoln Last Ride 13Apr2015
The riderless horse represents Lincoln, who made his last trip from The White House to President Lincoln's Cottage 150 years ago today.
ABPP KOCOA-Military Terrain Analysis Presentation 26Aug2014
Military Historian Patrick Jennings discusses George Washington's tactics at Fort Necessity at the fourth of four ABPP Planning Grant Training sessions for the 2014 grantees.
As part of today's 251st Anniversary of the Battle of Bushy Run, we share a video produced by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 1996 commemorating the battle. #PontiacsRebellion #PA
Rita Folse Elliott of the #LAMAR Institute discusses findings from two previous #ABPP grants related to the Battle of #Savannah! #RevWar #GA #FOC14
And our grantee training sessions have wrapped! Here's Matt explaining the battlefield landscape at the Siege of Corinth, Mississippi. #ABPP #DC
USS Monitor burial service - 'Taps'
'Taps' being played during the burial service for two sailors from the USS Monitor, Arlington National Cemetery, 8 March 2013.
USS Monitor burial service - procession
The procession marking the beginning of the burial service for two sailors from the USS Monitor, Arlington National Cemetery, 8 March 2013.