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Flight Memorial thumbnail image- click for close-up view Flight Memorial
In 1992, the Flight Memorial was completed and dedicated in memory of all graduates who have died in military flight. The memorial consists of a figure rising upward in a column of flames and smoke, and is located north of Lusk Reservoir.

Also enclosed by a granite wall in this wooded glen is the Air Cadet Memorial. It was erected in 1945 by the USMA classes of 1943, 1944 and 1945 as a memorial to all air cadets who died while undergoing flight training. The monument is made of blue Westerly granite; the stepping stones to the memorial are bluestone. The artist for the statue is Walter Hancock, who also sculpted the MacArthur Statue.