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| Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial |
| American Battle Monuments Commission |
View of headstones and memorial |
| Used for those deceased 1944-1945 |
| Established |
September 1944 (Completed 1960) |
| Location |
near Saint-Avold, (Moselle), France |
| Designed by |
Murphy & Locraft, Washington,
D.C. (Monument) Allyn R. Jennings of Oley, Pennsylvania (Landscape)
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| Total burials |
10,489 |
| Total commemorated |
444 |
| Burials by nation |
| United States |
| Burials by war |
| World War II |
| Statistics source: Cemetery booklet |
The Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial covers 113.5 acres and is the largest American World War II cemetery in Europe. Those interred died mostly in the fall of 1944 during the Drive to the Siegfried Line and were mainly part of the U.S. Third and Seventh Armies. The cemetery is administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission.
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