This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.
This park honors a New Yorker who enlisted in the United States Army and served in the 75th Joint Assault Signal Company of the Army Air Corps during World War II (1939-1945), Corporal Irwin A. Fischer. His company flew in Saipan, Iwo Jima, New Guinea, the Marshall Islands, and the Philippines.




