Menin Gate to the east of the city. The German army eventually surrounded the city on three sides, bombarding it throughout much of the war. The Second Battle of Ypres marked a second German attempt to take the city in April 1915. The third battle is more commonly referred to as Passchendaele, but this 1917 battle was a complex five-month engagement. The fourth and fifth battles occurred during 1918. British and Commonwealth soldiers often passed through the Menenpoort on their way to the front lines with some 300,000 of them being killed in the Ypres Salient. 90,000 of these soldiers have no
All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors "Justice" and the six black soldiers and sailors, faces the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and the busy traffic circle; but its reverse, with the four white goddesses, faces the Franklin Institute and the 20th Street sidewalk, and is much more likely to be viewed by pedestrians and motorists. Unfortunately, like the colossal statue of "William Penn" atop Philadelphia City Hall, the monument faces northeast, leaving the figures of "Justice" and the black servicemen in shadow for much of the day. All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors is a war memorial in