The World War II West Coast Memorial is located on a
high ground overlooking the entrance to San Francisco Harbor. It is at the
intersection of Lincoln and Harrison Boulevards in the Presidio of San Francisco,
California, near the southern edge of the Golden Gate Bridge.
This memorial was erected in the memory of those soldiers,
sailors, marines and coast guardsmen, and airmen who met their deaths in the
American coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean during World War II. It consists of a curved
gray granite wall decorated with bas relief sculpture and a statue of Liberty on its right
flank. On the wall are inscribed the name, rank, organization and State of each of the 412
American missing whose remains were never recovered or identified. The terrace affords an
excellent view of the neighboring shore and the exit from the Golden Gate Bridge to the
Pacific Ocean.
