The Pacific War Memorial on Corregidor Island in the Philippines was erected by the United States government to commemorate Filipino and American soldiers who had lost their lives during the Second World War. Inaugurated in 1968, it was the first American memorial on Philippine soil since the United States had recognized the Philippines as an independent country in 1946, following almost fifty years of colonial rule. This article interprets the monument and the wider Corregidor memoryscape. It examines how the United States, the Philippines and the Second World War are depicted both within and around the memorial and what this suggests about the creation and persistence of colonial memory. The article explores the tensions between colonial and decolonized remembrance, and the extent to which the Pacific War Memorial serves as a historical marker for the United States’ achievements in the Philippines.

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“美国和菲律宾自由联盟纪念碑”：太平洋战争纪念馆和第二次世界大战纪念馆

菲律宾科雷吉多岛上的太平洋战争纪念碑是美国政府为纪念在二战中丧生的菲律宾和美国士兵而建造的。它于 1968 年落成，是自 1946 年美国在经历近五十年的殖民统治后承认菲律宾为独立国家以来，菲律宾土地上的第一个美国纪念馆。这篇文章解释了纪念碑和更广泛的 Corregidor 记忆景观。它研究了美国、菲律宾和第二次世界大战是如何在纪念碑内和周围被描绘的，以及这对殖民记忆的创造和持久性有何暗示。这篇文章探讨了殖民记忆和非殖民记忆之间的紧张关系，