British American cemetery and monument in Saint-James
The Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial south of Saint-James, France, near the eastern edge of Brittany, contains the remains of 4,410 World War II American soldiers, most of whom lost their lives in the 1944 Normandy and Brittany campaigns. Along the preserved wall of the memorial terrace are engraved the names of 498 missing people.
The Brittany American Cemetery
Covering 28 acres (110,000 m²), the Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial is nestled among hedgerows in rolling farmland near the border between the regions of Brittany and Normandy in France. It is one of 14 permanent American World War II military cemetery monuments established by the American Battle Monuments Commission on foreign soil.
The 4,410 U.S. military
Those buried in the Brittany American Cemetery lost their lives in the area of northwestern France, from the bridgehead westward to Brest and eastward to the Seine. They represent 43 percent of the original burials in the region.
They were buried there by the American Graves Registration Service in the distinctive grave patterns proposed by the cemetery’s architect and approved by this committee. Most of them died in battles in and around St. Louis. Lo.
The design and construction of all cemetery facilities in the World War I and World War II permanent cemeteries were the responsibility of the American Battle Monuments Commission (i.e., monument, chapel, visitor’s building, caretaker’s quarters, service facilities, and paths, roads and walls). The committee was also responsible for sculpture, landscaping and other improvements. Construction of Brittany’s permanent cemetery monument was completed in 1956.
There are 4,410 U.S. servicemen buried in the cemetery.
Their 4,408 headstones are placed in 16 fan-shaped plots curved from the central avenue. The dead came from every state in the Union and the District of Columbia. Ninety-five headstones mark graves of “unknowns”; two of these graves contain the remains of two Unknowns who could not be separated. In twenty cases, two brothers are buried next to each other. Among those buried in the cemetery are two Medal of Honor recipients, Sherwood H. Hallman and Ernest W. Prussman.
This article has been taken in whole or part from the Wikipedia article in English titled
“Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial”
