About East Coast Memorial

Overview

The World War II East Coast Memorial is located in The Battery, New York City.

This memorial commemorates those soldiers, sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, merchant mariners, and airmen who met their deaths in the service of their country in the western waters of the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Its axis is oriented on the Statue of Liberty. On each side of the axis are four gray granite pylons upon which are inscribed the name, rank, organization, and state of each of the over 4,600 missing in the waters of the Atlantic. For names where an individual’s remains have subsequently been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the memorial to indicate that the person now rests in a known gravesite.