The American Expeditionary (AEF) Forces Memorial, located on Pennsylvania Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets, NW in Washington DC, commemorates the two million American military personnel and the Commander in Chief, General John J. Pershing who made up the AEF of World War I.

It consists of a stone plaza fifty-two feet by seventy-five feet, an 8-foot statue of General Pershing on a stone pedestal, a stone bench facing the statue and two ten-foot high walls, one along the south side of the memorial area and one along the east. The south wall contains two battle maps with appropriate inscriptions. Inscribed on the reverse side of the east wall is General Pershing's tribute to the officers and men of the AEF:





"IN THEIR DEVOTION, THEIR VALOR,

AND IN THE LOYAL FULFILLMENT OF THEIR OBLIGATIONS,

THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF

THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES

HAVE LEFT A HERITAGE OF WHOM THOSE WHO FOLLOW

MAY EVER BE PROUD."



The AEF Memorial was established by the American Battle Monuments Commission, but is now administered by the National Park Service.