OregonWorld War IIMemorial
Honoring those who served.
3,767 Oregonians did not come home from the Second World War. Their names are cut into black granite on the grounds of the State Capitol in Salem.
The record
Twenty eight accounts were researched and written for the memorial: the six theaters Oregonians were sent to, the thirteen battles they fought in, and nine storyboards on what the war did to Oregon itself.
Theaters of Operation
The six fronts Oregonians were sent to, each one a campaign measured in years.
6 accounts →
Battles
Thirteen engagements, from Pearl Harbor to the last push into Germany.
13 accounts →
Storyboards
What the war did to Oregon itself: the shipyards, the camps, the losses off the map.
9 accounts →
3,767 names,
cut into the stone.
Born in Oregon, or enlisted from it, who gave their lives between May 1941 and January 1946. At the memorial you find a name by walking the wall and reading. Here you can type it.
Search the wallOregonians who served
The war Oregon fought at home
Portland built ships around the clock, and shift change emptied the yards by the thousand at two in the morning. Camp Adair trained a hundred thousand men at once and became the second largest city in the state. Vanport went up out of nothing to house the workers. And thousands of Oregonians of Japanese descent were removed from their homes and sent to camps.
Read the storyboards
Was someone in your family there?
The Foundation collected accounts from Oregonians who served and from the families who waited at home. If you have a story, a recording, or a photograph, it belongs in the record.
How to submit a story