AMERICAN NORMANDY CEMETERY

NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY

This new center inaugurated last June 6th 2007 will become a "must" on a beaches tour. It is free of charge, plan on spending from 1 to 2 hours now at the cemetery (very emotional !)
Closing at 5.00 pm in winter & at 6.00 pm
in summer !!

http://www.abmc.gov/nvc/index.php

9387 graves - 1557 MIA

There is a second smaller US cemetery in Saint-James (close to Mt St Michel)

Trevor by the grave of Herbert Norton

http://fleursdelamemoire.free.fr
This association is created to perpetuate the memory of
the soldiers, sailors and airmen buried in the American Cemeteries of Colleville-sur-Mer and Saint James in Normandy ( France ), by placing flowers on their tombs.

October 1st 2009 : 3433 members of the association take care of a total of 9.913 Graves.

7 979 graves : Colleville-sur-Mer cemetery ( Omaha Beach)

1934 graves : Saint-James cemetery ( American Brittany Cemetery )

3433 individual members, 69 towns,
122 associations/companies take care of the graves in Colleville and Saint-James Cemetery

Grave of Theodore Roosevelt