NI Photowalk - The World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The National World War II Memorial is located between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.

On one side of the fountain is a list of the major battles in the Atlantic theater, and the other side commemorates the Pacific theater of the war.  Each pillar represents the fifty states and the US Territories.  The pillars are placed in the order they became states.

Doves carrying a wreath of victory is in the tower on each side of the plaza.

A replica of the victory medal that all soldiers received is embedded in the ground beneath.

The Field of Stars joins the two theaters.  Each of the gold stars represents 100 Americans who died in the course of the war.  There are 4000 stars.

We were there to honor fifteen of those 400,000 and laid a wreath in their honor.

A Marine Corp bugler played taps as part of the ceremony.

The promenade leading to the fountains are lined with bas relief panels that tell the story of the war.  It is not just the soldiers that are honored, but those who stayed on the home front as well.

Soldiers boarding the boats for Europe and the Pacific

Working in the shipyards, including female riveters to the right

Farmers growing the food that fed the nation and the troops

Inside a submarine

On an aircraft carrier

Disembarking on the islands of the Pacific

Fighting in the Pacific jungles

Burying the dead

Freeing the prisoners of war

Celebrating the end of the war

On the docks, the newsboy's paper says "Germany Declares War"

Women in service

A war bond rally

The aircraft industry

On the boats

Preparing for the air war

The Airborne preparing the leap out

The landings of D-Day, from the perspective of the Germans

Moving inland

Field hospitals

The Battle of the Bulge

Meeting the Soviets at the Elbe River

Listening to the radio report after the attack on Pearl Harbor

Volunteers taking to oath