Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial - Saint-Avold, France
Posted by: flyingmoose
N 49° 07.301 E 006° 42.867
32U E 333243 N 5443497
A guestbook for the WWII cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM19EQZ
Location: Grand-Est, France
Date Posted: 02/13/2024
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The guest book is in the visitor center.
The Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial in France covers 113.5 acres and contains the largest number of graves of our military dead of World War II in Europe, a total of 10,481. Their headstones are arranged in nine plots in a generally elliptical design extending over the beautiful rolling terrain of eastern Lorraine and culminating in a prominent overlook feature. Most of the dead here were killed while driving the German forces from the fortress city of Metz, France toward the Siegfried Line and the Rhine River. Initially, there were over 16,000 Americans interred in the St. Avold region in France, mostly from the U.S. Seventh Army's Infantry and Armored Divisions and its cavalry groups. St. Avold served as a vital communications center for the vast network of enemy defenses guarding the western border of the Third Reich. - (
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