Swarthmore in Delaware County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

World War II Memorial

1941 • 1945

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., May 25, 2021

1. World War II Memorial Marker

Inscription.

In memory of those from the
Borough of Swarthmore
who gave their lives
in World War II

Webster S. Allyn • Marcus C. Burgett • Wilson Burke
Paul D. Caldwell • Bruce S. Cook • George E. Davisson
Milton H. Fussell III • I. John Haviland • Vernon Henderson
Hugh A. Hilferty • Daniel P. Johnson • Louis J. Koch, Jr.
Alfred W. Larson • Harry S. MacMillan • Malcolm Main
Winthrop W. Mellen, Jr. • Clarence E. Meyers • Harry L. Miller, Jr.
John M. Ogden, Jr. • Boyd W. Stauffer • John H. Stokes, Jr.
Louis J. Storck • William L. Thorpe • Walter A. Wernher
Joseph M. Youmans

Dedicated May 30, 1948

Erected 1948 by Ainsworth-Wernher American Legion Post No. 427.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Patriots & Patriotism • War, World II.

Location. 39° 54.108′ N, 75° 20.958′ W. Memorial is in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, in Delaware County. It is at the intersection of Park Avenue and Dartmouth Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Park Avenue. Monument is in Central Park. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Swarthmore PA 19081, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Southeast Pennsylvania and in Greater Philadelphia.

It is also in the American Northeast

and in the Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

New Netherland,

and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured

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as the crow flies: Korean War Memorial (here, next to this marker); Vietnam War Memorial (here, next to this marker); Swarthmore in the World War (here, next to this marker); Benjamin West (approx. ¼ mile away); An Original Landscape (approx. ¼ mile away); Caroline Burnham Kilgore (approx. 0.8 miles away); J. Edgar Thompson (approx. 1.2 miles away); Leiper Railway (approx. 1.8 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Swarthmore.

War Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., May 25, 2021

2. War Memorial

WWII Marker is on opposite side of monument

Credits. This page was last revised on May 30, 2021. It was originally submitted on May 30, 2021, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 327 times since then and 27 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on May 30, 2021, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.