World War II Honoree

Frederick Clark Badger

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Honolulu, Hawaii

Relationship

Self

In June 1942, he enlisted in the United States Army Reserve Corps, and then in 1943 he attended the United States Military Academy and on graduation became an officer in the Corps of Engineers, where he remained for 50 years. In the final 20 years of his service, Colonel Badger constructed the Pershing Memorial in Washington, DC to commemorate the American Expeditionary Force's actions during World War I. To commemorate the achievements of our Armed Forces in World War II, he designed and constructed a memorial at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, a memorial at Saipan in the Mariana Islands and a memorial at Utah Beach, France. He constructed the Korean Veterans War Memorial in Washington, DC. Finally, to honor the 2,489 Americans missing in Vietnam he constructed two courts of the missing in Vietnam he constructed two courts of the missing at the Honolulu Memorial and inscribed their names on its walls.