Photo by Brenda Normandin
(Photo by Paul F. Wilson)
Kesterson Burials
Honolulu Hawaii
Kesterson, Bobbie Lee
b. Mar. 15, 1925 d. Jun. 12, 1945
Entered the service from Oklahoma
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 (who are memorialized at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial), and 8,200 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.