World War II Memorial (Fenway–Kenmore, Boston)

War memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Not to be confused with World War II Memorial (Charlestown, Boston).

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World War II Memorial

United States of America

The memorial in 2013

For casualties of World War II
Unveiled| 1949; 76 years ago (1949)
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Boston, Massachusetts

Designed by| John Francis Paramino

In memory of the men and women of boston who lost their lives in world war II

The World War II Memorial by John Francis Paramino is installed in the Back Bay Fens in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was completed during 1947–1949, copyrighted in 1948, and erected in 1949. The bronze and granite war memorial features an allegorical statue of winged female figure of Victory. Behind her is a wall with 27 bronze plaques listing the names of people who died in World War II. The work was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1993.[1]

## References

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1. ^ "World War II Memorial, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on September 18, 2023. Retrieved October 17, 2019.

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Public art in Boston

Works|

* Appeal to the Great Spirit
* Army Nurses Memorial
* Arthur Fiedler Memorial
* Bagheera Fountain
* Beacon Hill Monument
* Boston Common Tablet
* Boston Irish Famine Memorial
* Boston Massacre Monument
* Boston Public Garden Flagpole Base
* Boston Women's Memorial
* Boy and Bird Fountain
* Brewer Fountain
* Bust of Patrick Collins
* Bust of Richard Cushing
* Charles Eliot Memorial
* Charlestown Civil War Memorial
* Charlestown Vietnam Veterans Memorial
* China Trade Gate
* City Carpet
* Death and the Sculptor
* Declaration of Independence Tablet
* Democratic Donkey
* Dolphins of the Sea
* Dorchester Heights Monument
* Echo of the Waves
* Edwin Upton Curtis Memorial
* Emancipation
* Emancipation Memorial†
* The Embrace
* Ether Monument
* Firemen's Memorial
* The Founders Memorial
* George Robert White Memorial
* George Thorndike Angell Memorial
* Harbor Fog
* Hotel Vendome Fire Memorial
* Hungarian Revolution Memorial
* Indian Hunter
* James J. and Helen Storrow Memorial
* Japanese Lantern
* John Barry Tablet
* John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial
* Lotta Fountain
* Make Way for Ducklings
* Marvin E. Goody Memorial
* Massachusetts Fallen Firefighters Memorial
* Massachusetts Korean War Memorial
* Massachusetts Law Enforcement Memorial
* New England Holocaust Memorial
* Old North Memorial Garden
* A Once and Future Shoreline
* Oneida Football Club Monument
* Parkman Plaza
* The Partisans
* Poe Returning to Boston
* Pope John Paul II Memorial
* Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
* Small Child Fountain
* Soldiers and Sailors Monument
* Statler Fountain
* Temple Bell
* Thermopylae
* The Teammates
* The Tortoise and the Hare
* Triton Babies Fountain
* World War I Memorial
* World War II Memorial
* Charlestown
* Fenway–Kenmore

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statues|

* Aristides
* Red Auerbach
* William Francis Bartlett
* Phillips Brooks
* Robert Burns
* Thomas Cass
* Christopher Columbus
* Beacon Hill
* North End†
* William Ellery Channing
* John Singleton Copley
* James Michael Curley
* Tony DeMarco
* Charles Devens
* Mary Dyer
* John Endecott
* Leif Erikson
* Edward Everett
* David Farragut
* Benjamin Franklin
* William Lloyd Garrison
* John Glover
* Edward Everett Hale
* Alexander Hamilton
* Joseph Hooker
* Anne Hutchinson
* John F. Kennedy
* Tadeusz Kościuszko
* Henry Cabot Lodge
* Horace Mann
* Samuel Eliot Morison
* Bobby Orr
* George S. Patton
* Wendell Phillips
* William Prescott
* Josiah Quincy III
* Paul Revere
* Bill Russell
* Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
* Charles Sumner
* Maurice J. Tobin
* David I. Walsh
* Joseph Warren
* George Washington
* Daniel Webster
* Kevin White
* John Winthrop

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* Boston Art Commission
* Graffiti in Boston

Key: † No longer extant or on public display

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