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The chapel, a white masonry building enriched with sculpture and mosaic, stands near the center of the cemetery. In front of it on a wide terrace are two large hemicycles. Twenty-five mosaic maps recall the achievements of the American armed forces in the Pacific, China, India and Burma. On rectangular Trani limestone piers within the hemicycles are inscribed the Tablets of the Missing containing 36,285 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. Carved in the floors are the seals of the American states and its territories. From the memorial and other points within the cemetery there are impressive views over the lowlands to Laguna de Bay and towards the distant mountains.
The chapel was designed by Gardener A. Dailey, one of the most prominent architects in the San Francisco Bay area from the late 1920's until his death in 1967. He was one of leading proponents of the Second Bay Region Style.
Dailey was a pilot in World War I and was awarded a Purple Heart for an injury that he received when he was a pilot and his airplane crashed. This injury left him blind in his right eye. A legacy of his patriotism exists at the American Cemetery and Memorial in Manila and at the West Coast Memorial at the Presidio in San Francisco.
After World War II, Dailey designed the magnificent Manila American Cemetery and Memorial for the American Battle Monuments Commission (AMBC). In 1948, the Government of the Philippines granted permission to the United States to establish a memorial cemetery on part of the former reservation (152 acres) of Fort William McKinley. After a tremendous amount of grading and landscaping, the cemetery and memorial were completed and dedicated in 1960.
In addition to the spectacular chapel, it contains the largest number of graves for United States military dead in World War II (17,206) as well as inscriptions of the names of 36,282 missing in action.
In 1967 Dailey leaped to his death from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, becoming that landmark's 325 suicide fatality.
191011-N-DO281-0353 LUXEMBOURG (Nov. 11, 2019) -- The rifle detail, assigned to U.S. Air Force 52nd Fighter Wing, march to their position during a Veterans Day Ceremony at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in Luxembourg, Nov. 11, 2019. U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet, headquartered in Naples, conducts the full spectrum of joint and naval operations, often in concert with allied and interagency partners in order to advance U.S. national interests and security and stability in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Trey Fowler/Released)