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Kind of crazy looking for WWII Monument, but I understand why it's there.
It IS goofy looking, especially for a war memorial. I'd have thought that something like a nice marbled obelisk, or a short slab, with a bronze plaque inscription(Kinda like the ones' you will see at Civil War Memorials') would look more appropriate.
That thing looks' like some kind of weather-testing apparatus.