• Boy Scout volunteers placing flags in the Andersonville National Cemetery for Memorial Day

    Andersonville

    National Historic Site Georgia

Memorial Plaques at Andersonville NHS

Since the late 1980s, continued memorialization and remembrance at Andersonville has taken the form of bronze tablets. The tablets can be found in the memorial courtyard behind the museum and along the commemorative walkway north of the museum. These plaques are dedicated to the larger themes of the park, and commemorate the sacrifices of American servicemen and woman in conflicts throughout our history.

 

Museum Courtyard

  • The Battling Bastards of Bataan
  • Hiroshima POWs
  • Vermonters
  • American Ex-Prisoners of War
  • 27th Bombardment Group US Army Air Corps
  • OFLAG64 and 64Z 

Commemorative Walkway

  • Prisoners of War in Korea
  • 106th Infantry Division
  • USS Pueblo
  • American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor
  • Armored Division Association Mystery Division
  • 8th Air Force
  • Tiger Survivors
  • Vietnam POWs 
  • 42nd Rainbow Division


Did You Know?

Plaque at entrance to National Prisoner of War Museum

On April 9, 1942 on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines, 10,000 American soldiers became prisoners of the Japanese.  Exactly 56 years later the National Prisoner of War Museum was dedicated.  Many former POWs and their families attended, including survivors of the Bataan Death March.