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Camp Butler National Cemetery in Springfield in Sangamon County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
 

For All the Fallen Sky Soldiers

 
 
For All the Fallen Sky Soldiers Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Jason Voigt
1. For All the Fallen Sky Soldiers Marker
Inscription.

For all the fallen sky soldiers of the
173d Airborne 503d Inf.

Eternal Peace
March 2022

 
Erected 2022.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
 
Location. 39° 50.03′ N, 89° 33.615′ W. Memorial is in Springfield, Illinois, in Sangamon County. It is in Camp Butler National Cemetery. It can be reached from Camp Butler Road. Memorial is located at Camp Butler National Cemetery. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 4931 Camp Butler Rd, Springfield IL, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Illinois’ Colorado River Valley, specifically in Flagstaff & High Country, on the Mogollon Rim, in the Prescott Area, in Verde Valley, in the White Mountains, in The Valley (the San Fernando Valley), in the Inland Empire, in Silicon Valley, in the Coachella Valley, in the Colorado Desert, in the Gold Country, in the High Desert, in the Mojave Desert, in the San Bernardino Mountains, in the San Luis Valley, in the Berkshire Foothills, in the Connecticut River Valley, on the
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Connecticut Shoreline, on the Gold Coast, in Greater Bridgeport, in Greater Hartford, in Greater New Haven, in Greater New London, in the Knowledge Corridor, in the Litchfield Hills, in Mystic and the Eastern Shore, in the Quiet Corner, in the Thames River Valley, on Delaware’s Beaches, in Southern New Castle County, in the Everglades, on the Florida Keys, on Hilo and East Hawaii, on the Kona Coast, on North Shore Oahu, on Pearl Harbor and Historic West Oahu, in Upcountry Maui, in Lahaina and West Maui, on Windward Oahu, in Central Illinois, in the Quad Cities, on the Indiana Dunes and Lake Michigan Shore, in the Calumet Region, in the Spirit Lake Nation, in the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, in the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation, in the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, on the Cheyenne River Reservation, in the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation, in the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, on the Kootenai Reservation, in the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, on the Wind River Indian Reservation, on the Shoshone–Paiute Duck Valley Reservation, on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, in the Yankton Sioux Tribe, in the Navajo Nation, on the Shoshone-Bannock Fort Hall Reservation, on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation, on Nez Perce Tribal Land, in the Blackfeet Nation, in the Crow Nation, in the Flathead Nation, in the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in the Northern Cheyenne Nation, on the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, in the Tohono O’odham Nation, in the White Mountain Apache Nation, in the Yavapai-Apache Nation, in the Amana Colonies, on Mount Desert Island, in the Kennebec Valley, in the Maine Highlands, in Midcoast Maine, on Penobscot Bay, on Southern Maine Coast, in the Western Maine Lakes and Mountains Region, in Greater Bangor, in Greater Portland, in the Baltimore Metro Region, in Central Maryland, in Historic Boston, on Cape Ann, on the North Shore, in the South Coast, on the South Shore, in Greater Boston, on the Straits of Mackinac, on the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, in Greater Duluth — The Twin Ports, in Greater Billings, in the Lakes Region, in the Merrimack Valley, in North Jersey, in Central Jersey, on the Jersey Shore, in the Pine Barrens, in Piedmont Triad, on the Cape Fear Coast, on the Crystal Coast, in Greater Asheville, in Greater Charlotte, on the Outer Banks, in the Research Triangle, on the Oregon Coast, in the Blackstone Valley, in Greater Providence, on Narragansett Bay, in Newport and Aquidneck Island, in Historic Charleston, on the Grand Strand, on the Sea Islands, on Waccamaw Neck, in the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto Basin, in the Foothills, in Congaree Country, in Greater Burlington, in the Mid-Ohio Valley and in the Jackson Hole Area. It is also in the American Midwest, in the Ohio River Valley, on the Colorado Plateau, in the Black Hills, in the Corn Belt, in the Chesapeake Bay Region, and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Great North Woods, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once Fairfield County, Hartford County, Litchfield County, Middlesex County, New Haven County, New London County, Tolland County, Windham County, the Viceroyalty of New France, Acadia, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Landing Ship Tanks (LST's) Memorial (here, next to this marker); 5th Regimental Combat Team
For All the Fallen Sky Soldiers Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Jason Voigt, July 7, 2023
2. For All the Fallen Sky Soldiers Marker
Located at Camp Butler National Cemetery
(a few steps from this marker); Navy Seabees (a few steps from this marker); Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (a few steps from this marker); Confederate Burials in the National Cemetery (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); Camp Butler National Cemetery (approx. 0.2 miles away); A National Cemetery System (approx. 0.2 miles away); a different marker also named Camp Butler (approx. Ό mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Springfield.
 
Another marker is no longer nearby. Camp Butler (was approx. 0.2 miles away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on December 14, 2024. It was originally submitted on July 29, 2023, by Jason Voigt of Glen Carbon, Illinois. This page has been viewed 276 times since then and 21 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on July 29, 2023, by Jason Voigt of Glen Carbon, Illinois.
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