The Honolulu Memorial is located within the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in an extinct volcano near the center of the city at 2177 Puowaina Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii.

On either side of the grand stairs leading to the memorial are eight courts of the Missing on which are inscribed the names of the 18,096 American World War II Missing from the Pacific, excluding those from the southwest Pacific, and 8,196 American Missing from the Korean War. Two half courts have been added at the foot of the staircase that contain the names of 2,504 Americans missing from the Vietnam War. At the top of the stairs is a chapel flanked by galleries containing mosaic maps and descriptions of the achievements of the American Armed Forces in the Central and South Pacific regions and in Korea.