The Victory Eagle is a bronze sculpture designed to honor the veterans and casualties of World War I.
Although the artist is not known, noted ornithologists Thomas Roberts and Otto Widmann consulted on its development.
[3] Produced in the early 1920s, the monuments were meant to mark each county line along the Victory Highway as it crossed the United States.
At the terminals in San Francisco and New York, huge groups of eagles would be mounted on bases along with bronze statues of a soldier, a sailor, and a Red Cross nurse.
[2] However, the statues had to be paid for through private funding, and the plan eventually fell apart when the Great Depression began.