Did you push F11 and click on slideshow to see these full screen? Here's the flag flying at half-mast to commemorate WWII Pacific Theater Naval Veteran Gerald Ford.
The base contains the emblems of the five branches of service (Hard to see the Coast Guard on the far right).
Jane in front of the banyan trees.
A typical tombstone -- note the absence of the long rows of crosses. Most of those killed were in their 20s.
The Honolulu Memorial added in the early 1960s.
The "boxes" on either side of the stairs are the courts listing names of those missing in action (MIA).
The list of the MIA include WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. There are 8 full courts and two half courts (for the Vietnam MIAs).
Medal of Honor winners get stars by their names and gold highlights. Names are by war by branch of service and then alphabetical. The Navy has the most WWII names as the MIA lists include those buried at sea.
A pulmeria tree rises inside each Court of the Missing.
This is the far edge of one of the two map galleries that radiate from the chapel.
This quote may be from Lincoln but was probably written by one of his secretaries, John Hay, who went on to become Secretary of State and had his own war (Spanish American). It's from a letter to a women thought to have five sons who died in the civil war. (Turns out two died, and at least one deserted -- and she was a confederate sympathizer who tore up the letter).
Major WWII battles of the Pacific Theater are carved above the entry ways to the maps galleries.
Maps list every major operation and there are a few overview maps such as this.
Two map galleries radiate out form the chapel. The maps are 10 feet high and were first made with the scagliola process -- an old Italian method that did not hold up to Hawaiian humidity. They were replaced by mosaics. If you are a WWII history buff, I've put 50+ pictures of the galleries at this site: http://picasaweb.google.com/schmitt.dick/PunchBowlCemetaryOahuHawaiiMapGalleryExcruciatingDetails
Lady Columbia is 30 feet high and stands on a ship's prow. It's the work of Washington, D.C. sculptor Bruce Moore.
Each WWII memorial run by the American Battlefield Memorial Commission contains a non-denominational chapel.
This is the chapel window. The glass carvings are called cabochons and are by sculptor Bruce Moore as well. These are lit by the sun. The ones on the chapel altar rail are electrically lit.
The bronze doors also contain cabochons.
Here a close-up of a cabochon. Altogether there are 7 different cabochons. Two of them are used 3 times each.
Another view of "Lincoln's" quote.
Columbia rising above the fern trees. Note the laurel branch of peace in her left hand.
Looking down punchbowl -- a nearly perfectly shaped volcanic crater.
The headstones leveled with the grass give this cemetery the feel of a civilian burial ground.
Another view from the top of the memorial.
Several memorials line the road put in place by various veterans' groups. This one commemorates a Japanese-American unit that fought with distinction in Africa and Europe.
This commemorates the 442nd Regimental Combat team of Japanese Americans who fought valiantly (including 22 Medal of Honor winners) while some of their family members were interned in camps in the American West. See Wiki for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Regimental_Combat_Team
The Hawaiians provided Japanese-American volunteers way out of proportion to their population. Hawaiians were not interned in camps and so their children were more likely to enlist than those on the Mainland.
The famous war correspondent Ernie Pyle was one of the first (of five) interred here in 1947 when the cemetery opened.
The memorial was architected by Weihe, Frick and Kruse of San Francisco, assisted locally by Theodore A. Vierra, Architects of Honolulu. The landscape architects were Thompson and Thompson of Honolulu.
