Normandy American Cemetery

Normandy American Cemetery See Map - as seen in Saving Private Ryan - this, the largest American Cemetery in France, contains 9,387 graves, and walls inscribed with 1,557 names of the missing.

Colleville 2002 - Normandy American Cemetery - 1st Infantry Memorial
Normandy American Cemetery 2009 - After the War, my father spent a while serving as Honor Guard here, overlooking the town of Colleville and the beach where he first landed in Normandy.
10,000 Memorials 1 - In this panorama, and the next, I tried to convey the scope of these 10,000 graves commemorating the sacrifices of so many young men and women. Even so, each picture shows only about half of the graves here.

10,000 Memorials 1 - In this panorama, and the previous, I tried to convey the scope of these 10,000 graves commemorating the sacrifices of so many young men and women. Even so, each picture shows only about half of the graves here.

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