The FReeper Foxhole - The National WWII Memorial - May 29th, 2004

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National World War II Memorial Bas-Relief Panels & Inscriptions



A series of bas-relief sculpture panels created by sculptor Ray Kaskey will be set into the balustrades of the north and south ceremonial entrance walls. The bas-reliefs consist of 24 separate panels. The 12 on the north depict the Atlantic front; the 12 on the south depict the Pacific front.

The unifying theme of the panels is the transformation of America caused by the country’s total immersion in World War II. The panels depict the all-out mobilization of America’s agricultural, industrial, military, and human resources that transformed the country into the arsenal of democracy as well as the breadbasket of the world.

The visual inspiration for these panels is the bas-relief sculptures that encircle the Pension Building in Washington, D.C., which were influenced by the bas-reliefs on the Parthenon. What these bas-reliefs have in common is that all are isocephalic, a Greek word meaning that the heads of the principal figures line up horizontally. The human scale is the visual unifying element common to all 24 panels; all details, scenes, equipment, etc. are subordinated to the scale of the figure. The unity of purpose unique to this time in America is best evoked by placing the visual emphasis on the individual in this time-honored manner. Most of the panels are based on historical photos.

Atlantic Front Panels

Lend Lease
Enlistment
Women in Military
Rosie the Riveter/Aircraft Construction
Battle of the Atlantic
Air War/B-17 Paratroopers
Normandy Beach Landing
Tanks in Combat
Medics in Field
Battle of the Bulge
Russians meet Americans at the Elbe.

Pacific Front Panels

Pearl Harbor
Bond Drive
Embarkation
Shipbuilding
Agriculture
Submarine Warfare
Navy in Action
Amphibious Landing
Jungle Warfare
Field Burial
Liberation
V-J Day

National World War II Memorial Inscriptions



The following inscriptions will be inscribed in the National World War II Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. The inscriptions are presented by location.

Announcement Stone

HERE IN THE PRESENCE OF WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN,
ONE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FATHER AND THE OTHER
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY PRESERVER OF OUR NATION,
WE HONOR THOSE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICANS WHO
TOOK UP THE STRUGGLE DURING THE SECOND WORLD
WAR AND MADE THE SACRIFICES TO PERPETUATE
THE GIFT OUR FOREFATHERS ENTRUSTED TO US:
A NATION CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.

Flagpoles
AMERICANS CAME TO LIBERATE, NOT TO CONQUER,
TO RESTORE FREEDOM AND TO END TYRANNY


Eastern Corners
PEARL HARBOR
DECEMBER 7, 1941, A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY…NO
MATTER HOW LONG IT MAY TAKE US TO OVERCOME THIS
PREMEDITATED INVASION, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, IN THEIR
RIGHTEOUS MIGHT, WILL WIN THROUGH TO ABSOLUTE VICTORY.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt

THEY HAVE GIVEN THEIR SONS TO THE MILITARY SERVICES. THEY
HAVE STOKED THE FURNACES AND HURRIED THE FACTORY WHEELS.
THEY HAVE MADE THE PLANES AND WELDED THE TANKS,
RIVETED THE SHIPS AND ROLLED THE SHELLS.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt


WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP
WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS
OF THE NATION, NOT AS WOMEN…
THIS WAS A PEOPLE’S WAR,
AND EVERYONE WAS IN IT.
Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby

THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER AS BROTHERS-IN-ARMS.
THEY DIED TOGETHER AND NOW THEY SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE.
TO THEM WE HAVE A SOLEMN OBLIGATION.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz


Southern Walls


BATTLE OF MIDWAY JUNE 4-7, 1942
THEY HAD NO RIGHT TO WIN. YET THEY DID, AND IN
DOING SO THEY CHANGED THE COURSE OF A WAR…EVEN AGAINST
THE GREATEST OF ODDS, THERE IS SOMETHING IN THE HUMAN SPIRIT –
A MAGIC BLEND OF SKILL, FAITH AND VALOR – THAT CAN LIFT
MEN FROM CERTAIN DEFEAT TO INCREDIBLE VICTORY.
Walter Lord, Author

THE WAR’S END
TODAY THE GUNS ARE SILENT. A GREAT TRAGEDY HAS ENDED. A GREAT
VICTORY HAS BEEN WON. THE SKIES NO LONGER RAIN DEATH – THE SEAS
BEAR ONLY COMMERCE – MEN EVERYWHERE WALK UPRIGHT IN THE
SUNLIGHT. THE ENTIRE WORLD IS QUIETLY AT PEACE.
General Douglas MacArthur

Northern Walls

WE ARE DETERMINED THAT BEFORE THE SUN SETS ON THIS TERRIBLE STRUGGLE
OUR FLAG WILL BE RECOGNIZED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS A SYMBOL OF
FREEDOM ON THE ONE HAND AND OF OVERWHELMING FORCE ON THE OTHER.
General George C. Marshall


D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944
YOU ARE ABOUT TO EMBARK UPON THE
GREAT CRUSADE TOWARD WHICH WE HAVE STRIVEN THESE
MANY MONTHS. THE EYES OF THE WORLD ARE UPON YOU…
I HAVE FULL CONFIDENCE IN YOUR COURAGE,
DEVOTION TO DUTY AND SKILL IN BATTLE.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Western Corners


OUR DEBT TO THE
HEROIC MEN AND VALIANT
WOMEN IN THE SERVICE
OF OUR COUNTRY CAN
NEVER BE REPAID. THEY
HAVE EARNED OUR
UNDYING GRATITUDE. AMERICA WILL
NEVER FORGET THEIR SACRIFICES.
President Harry S Truman


THE HEROISM OF OUR OWN
TROOPS…WAS MATCHED
BY THAT OF THE ARMED
FORCES OF THE NATIONS
THAT FOUGHT BY OUR SIDE…
THEY ABSORBED THE BLOWS…
AND THEY SHARED TO THE
FULL IN THE ULTIMATE
DESTRUCTION OF THE ENEMY.
President Harry S Truman

Southern Fountain Copings



CHINA * BURMA * INDIA SOUTHWEST PACIFIC CENTRAL PACIFIC NORTH PACIFIC

PEARL HARBOR * WAKE ISLAND * BATAAN CORREGIDOR * CORAL SEA *

MIDWAY * GUADALCANAL * NEW GUINEA * BUNA * TARAWA *

KWAJALEIN * ATTU * SAIPAN TINIAN GUAM * PHILIPPINE SEA * PELELIU *

LEYTE GULF * LUZON * MANILA * IWO JIMA * OKINAWA * JAPAN

Northern Fountain Copings


NORTH AFRICA SOUTHERN EUROPE WESTERN EUROPE CENTRAL EUROPE

BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC * MURMANSK RUN * TUNISIA *

SICILY SALERNO ANZIO ROME PO VALLEY * NORMANDY *

ST.LO * AIR WAR IN EUROPE * ALSACE * RHINELAND *

HUERTGEN FOREST * BATTLE OF THE BULGE *

REMAGEN BRIDGE * GERMANY

Southern and Northern Arches
1941 – 1945 VICTORY ON LAND VICTORY AT SEA VICTORY IN THE AIR

Freedom Wall – Field of Gold Stars
HERE WE MARK THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

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The memory of America's World War II generation will be preserved within the physical memorial and through the World War II Registry of Remembrances, an individual listing of Americans who contributed to the war effort. Any U.S. citizen who helped win the war, whether a veteran or someone on the home front, is eligible for the Registry. Names in the Registry will be forever linked to the memorial's bronze and granite representations of their sacrifice and achievement.

The Registry combines four distinct databases that can be searched for names of those whose service and sacrifice helped win the Second World War. The Registry includes the names of Americans who are:

Buried in American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) overseas military cemeteries.

Memorialized on ABMC Tablets of the Missing.

Listed on official War and Navy Department Killed in Service rosters now held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Honored by public enrollment in the Registry of Remembrances.

Register An Honoree

The World War II Registry of Remembrance will record the names of individuals who participated in the war effort. The registry will be kept on public display in Washington, DC as a reminder to future generations of the sacrifices made by these remarkable Americans. Anyone who served in the armed forces and any civilian who helped on the home front during World War II is eligible to be registered.

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[SAMWolf]

Great job on the thread today, Snippy.

Another reason for me to try and make it to Washingtopn DC once in my life.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks Sam. It's a trip we just have to do. Maybe we'll win the lotto. LOL.

[radu]

Memorial Day Weekend is upon us, a time to reflect on all those who have served our country over the years, who have faced the efforts and sacrifices in order to keep our country free.

To all the men and women who have so gallantly served our country, and who serve now, THANK YOU!!

In this household, as I'm sure it is in MANY others, every day is Memorial Day.

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Snippy.

[Humal]

This is so beautiful. I wish I could be there. Do you know if there is a list of the names of the men and women there? I submitted four names of family members, but didn't have the info on my husband's grandmother to submit at the time. I would still like to submit her name.

[snopercod]

Thanks for the information on "The Registry". The information on their website was very confusing.

It was nice of them to hang a pair of bronze baldacchinos up there. Very fitting.

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Snippy and eveyrone at the Freeper Foxhole.

[CholeraJoe]

Great Thread, Snippy!

Here's to you, Dad. It's your day finally.

[CholeraJoe]

Nice graphic. Check out my profile for another rendition.

[twinmag]

Thanks, kid.

[Samwise]

Above all, the memorial stands as an important symbol of American national unity, a timeless reminder of the moral strength and awesome power that can flow when a free people are at once united and bonded together in a common and just cause.

We could use some of that moral strength and awesome power now.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning, everyone.

[manna]

Present!

[tomball]

Good Morning Foxhole -

Great post.   Beautiful tribute to those who served in WW2

 

WW2 Field of 4,000 Gold Stars honors more than 400,000 lives lost during the war (Photo by Richard Latoff)

 

 

 

[The Mayor]

Now it happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met Him. —Luke 9:37

In God's eyes, true greatness is serving others.

[The Mayor]

Beautiful !

I can't wait to see it in person.

Sure I may have started it, but sam kept egging me on.
our desire was just to have a war movie..

I feel shamed, snippy has never yelled at me before..