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The National World War I Memorial is a national memorial commemorating the service rendered by members of the United States Armed Forces in World War I.The 2015 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the World War I Centennial Commission to build the memorial in Pershing Park, located at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.
The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri was opened in 1926 as the Liberty Memorial. In 2004, it was designated by the United States Congress as the country's official war memorial and museum dedicated to World War I. A non-profit organization manages it in cooperation with the Kansas City Board of Parks and ...
World War I is remembered and commemorated by various war memorials, including civic memorials, larger national monuments, war cemeteries, private memorials and a range of utilitarian designs such as halls and parks, dedicated to remembering those involved in the conflict. Huge numbers of memorials were built in the 1920s and 1930s, with around ...
W. Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial. Washington Avenue Soldier's Monument and Triangle. Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial. Winged Victory (Lewis) World War I Memorial (Atlantic City, New Jersey) World War I Memorial (Berwick, Pennsylvania)
September 14, 2024 at 8:48 AM. The memorial was bronzed at the Pangolin Foundry in Stroud [Getty Images] The centrepiece of the United States' first national World War One memorial, sculpted at an ...
14000388. Added to NRHP. July 11, 2014. The District of Columbia War Memorial commemorates the more than 26,000 "residents and citizens" of the District of Columbia who performed military service in World War I, including the 499 who gave their lives in that service. Located on the National Mall, it was constructed in 1931 as a domed, peristyle ...
Virginia War Memorial; Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial; Washington Avenue Soldier's Monument and Triangle; Winged Victory (Lewis) World War I Memorial (Atlantic City, New Jersey) World War I Memorial (East Providence, Rhode Island) World War I Memorial (Elkton, Maryland) World War I Memorial (Norfolk, Connecticut) World War I Memorial (Salem ...
1567. Inscription. 2023 (45th Session) Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which incorporates 139 cemeteries and memorials on the Western Front of the First World War. On 20 September 2023, UNESCO designated the locations as a World Heritage site. [1][2]