This national monument site at Pearl Harbor Honolulu Hawaii oversees and manages the US Navy ships that are part of the World War II historic site. This includes the USS Arizona Memorial, USS Oklahoma Memorial and the USS Utah Memorial. Both the…
The training ship, USS Utah, was sunk by Japanese aerial torpedoes on December 7, 1941 and was one of only 2 ships (the other being the USS Arizona) that was not raised. Unlike the Arizona, parts of the Utah remain above water. A small platform…
This missing man formation of Air Force planes symbolizes and honors those airmen who have been lost in combat. The metal planes appear to be taking off from the edge of the island into the blue skies and are located directly across from the Hickam…
The World War II–era battleship USS Missouri is permanently moored alongside the USS Arizona memorial on Ford Island. The Missouri commemorates the victory in the Pacific Theater of World War II and on the deck of the USS Missouri, which is now…
The battle site of the 1811 fight at Tippecanoe that preceded US involvement in the War of 1812 and helped destroy Native America attempts to form an alliance of tribes to withstand western white settlement is outlined by a wrought iron gate and…
This very large memorial in Vienna’s Schwarzenbergplatz honors the 17,000 Soviet soldiers who died in the liberation of Vienna from the Nazis near the end of World War II. The memorial is also referred to as Heldendenkmal der Roten Armee (English:…
Near Dong Ha and the old provincial capital of Hue in Vietnam in Quang Tri province is a large cemetery and memorial from the Vietnamese War with the United States. In 1968 a fierce battle was waged for the city of Hue during the Tet Offensive. The…
This original working scale model used by Dr. Felix de Weldon to sculpt the famous Marine Corps World War II Memorial that is in Washington, DC was donated to the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen in 1981. The sculpture brings to life the famous…
This large red granite memorial in the shape of a number 1 honor those men of the 1st Division “Ramrods” who served in Operation Enduring Freedom. The units and their nicknames are included and lists men lost from each unit by name.