Over the Top to Victory
Over the Top to Victory, also known as Doughboy Statue and Their Country's Call Answered, is an outdoor bronze sculpture by John Paulding, formerly located at the Marion County Courthouse in Salem, Oregon, United States. The statue was commissioned by the American War Mothers and the Gold Star Mothers Club to commemorate the 87 men and one woman from Marion County who died in World War I.
Description
The bronze sculpture depicts a uniformed World War I soldier, running and holding a gun with a bayonet in his proper left hand and a grenade in his opposite hand. He is shown wearing a backpack and hat. The statue measures approximately x x and rests on a square, tapered stone base that has a height of and a width of.An inscription on the lower right reads:. On the front of the base is the inscription:. The base's front also includes a plaque with a signed founder's mark and the text:. Displayed on the other three sides of the base are the names of 87 men and one woman from Marion County who died in the war.