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Battery Park

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A somber memorial

The monument commemorating the 4601 military men who lost their lives in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II stands in Battery Park, and is set straight across the water from the most symbolic monument in New York, the Statue of Liberty. It is one of three memorials to the Second World War in the United States administered by the American War Monuments Commission, along with the West Coast Memorial in San Francisco and the Honolulu Memorial. Designed by Gehron and Seltzer, it consists of a large square where eight tall, gray, solid blocks stand, containing the names and ranks of all those who died.

On the eastern side of the square is a monumental bronze eagle sculpted by Albino Manca (1898-1976) and placed on a pedestal of polished black granite, as well as a laurel wreath on a wave which symbolizes death at sea. The monument was officially opened by President John F. Kennedy on May 23, 1963.
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