• World War II Memorial

    World War II Memorial

    District of Columbia

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The National Capital Region (NCR), headquartered in Washington, DC, administers the National Mall and monumental core parks that were established at the same time the Nation's Capital was founded in the period 1790-1792. This oldest collection of national park areas, along with dozens of historic sites, natural areas, and Civil War battlefields comprise today's National Capital Region of the National Park Service.

National Capital Region
Office of Public Affairs
1100 Ohio Drive, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20242

(202) 619-7222

Did You Know?

Kilroy was here

Time Magazine, in their May 3, 2004, review of the new World War II Memorial, critically commented, “Il Duce would have loved it.” Some of the early criticism of the memorial elements centered on their similarity to some of the Nazi and Fascist architecture of the 1930s and 1940s.