memorial tablets

Maps in the Tablet of the Missing, 2006, at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Photo by Dave Dwiggins.

Cross marker at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines. The site occupies 152 acres on a prominent plateau, visible at a distance from the east, south and west. It contains the largest number of graves of our military dead of World War II, a total of 17,202, most of whom lost their lives in operations in New...

A Nationalist memorial to Chinese flyers, erected during the fall of 1935 (民国二十四年九月中浣), seen by Bob Riese in 1945. The inscription reads “云霄万古” in Chinese, roughly “Skies Eternal."