Hampton Roads History: History of Newport News’s Victory Arch

Newport News had played a tremendous role in supporting the Allied World War I victory. The Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation sent and received hundreds of thousands of American soldiers to and from the Western Front. The Newport News Welcome Home Committee decided to construct a Victory Arch in downtown Newport News in honor of those returning soldiers. The arch, featuring the inscription, “Greetings with love to those who return; a triumph with tears to those who sleep,” welcomed home more than 400,000 men during WWI and even more during the second World War. The arch still stands as a memorial to those soldiers who served our nation in times of need.

Image credit: Parade through the Newport News Victory Arch. E.P. (Ellis Parker) Griffith, photographer. The Mariners’ Museum MS0228-01–0465

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