BGuthrie Photos: CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- World War II Memorial (and MIA)

CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- World War II Memorial (and MIA):

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[1] WW2MIA_110728_01.JPG	[2] WW2MIA_110728_06.JPG	[3] WW2MIA_110728_09.JPG
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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WW2MIA_110728_01.JPG: West Coast Memorial To The Missing of World War II: The 413 members of the United States Armed Forces listed on this monument were lost or buried at sea in Pacific coastal waters of America during World War II. These War Dead, not commemorated elsewhere, are memorialized here overlooking the Golden Gate and Pacific Ocean, where many of them embarked for the Pacific Theater or patrolled coastal waters in ships and planes during World War II. The West Coast Memorial below you is one of three memorials on U.S. soil dedicated to missing service members of World War II. This memorial is part of a series built and maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission, a governmental agency responsible for overseeing US military cemeteries and memorials in foreign countries. The memory of World War I and II casualties whose remains were not returned to this country for final interment, and of War Dead from the Korean and Vietnam conflicts not otherwise commemorated is perpetuated through these cemeteries and memorials. Dedicated on November 29, 1960, this monument was designed by Clark and Beuttler, San Francisco. The statue of Columbia was sculpted by Jean de Marco, New York, and the landscaping designed by Lawrence Halprin, San Francisco. The winged horse Pegasus and Pisces the fish symbolizes the heavens in bas-relief on the monument wall. Stars, which mariners use for guidance, are shown because the men were lost and buried at sea.
2. WW2MIA_110728_09.JPG: West Coast Memorial to the Missing of World War II From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The West Coast Memorial to the Missing of World War II is a monument dedicated to missing soldiers, sailors, marines, coast guardsmen, and airmen of World War II. It is a curved wall of California granite set in a grove of Monterey pine and cypress and overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It bears the name, rank, organization and State of each of the 413 members of the Armed Forces who lost their lives or were buried at sea in the Pacific coastal waters. It is located on high ground overlooking Baker Beach along the Pacific Ocean, at the intersection of Lincoln and Harrison Boulevards, along the western edge of the Presidio of San Francisco, California. The architect was Hervey Parke Clark with landscape architecture by Lawrence Halprin. The sculptor was Jean de Marco, who won the 1965 Henry Hering Memorial Award for his work here
3. WW2MIA_110728_14.JPG: 1941-1945 Erected by the United States of America in proud and grateful remembrance of her sons who gave their lives in her service and who sleep in the American coast waters of the Pacific Ocean Into thy hands o lord
4. WW2MIA_110728_25.JPG: American Battle Monuments Commission Hervey Parke Clark John F Beuttler Architects 1958
Description of Subject Matter: World War II Memorial
The World War II Memorial at the Presidio honors American servicemen lost or buried in U.S. Pacific waters. New York sculptor Jean de Marco created the statue of Columbia.
Dedicated November 29, 1960, the West Coast World War II Memorial is a curved wall of California granite set in a grove of Monterey pine and cypress. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, it bears the names of 413 members of the armed forces who were lost or buried at sea in U.S. Pacific waters between 1941 and 1945.
The memorial was built by the American Battle Monuments Commission, a governmental agency also responsible for its maintenance. Cemeteries and memorials maintained by the A.B.M.C. preserve the legacy of American servicemen whose remains were not returned to this country for final interment. The West Coast Memorial is one of three A.B.M.C. memorials on U.S. soil dedicated to missing soldiers of World War II;the others are the East Coast Memorial at Battery Park in New York City and the Honolulu Memorial in Hawaii.
The above was from https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/world-war-ii-memorial.htm
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