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Of the 116,516 Americans that lost their lives during World War I,
30,922 are interred at overseas American military cemeteries.
St. Mihiel, in Thiaucourt, contains 4,153 burials and declares 284 as
missing.
After World War I, the ABMC erected
a memorial chapel in each of the eight American military cemeteries in Europe. |
American Battle Monuments Commission maintains 25 permanent American burial grounds,
and 26 separate memorials, monuments and markers on foreign soil.
1914-1918 Great War Centenary
American
Battle Monuments Commission.
Armistice
Signing in Compiegne.
Artstetten
Castle in June.
British
Cemetery at Messines Ridge.
Fort de
Douaumont, Verdun.
German
Bunker at Tyne Cot Cemetery.
Hill 60
Cratered Landscape.
Montsec American Monument.
Pozieres
British Cemetery.
Saint-Mihiel
American Cemetery.
Their
Name Liveth For Evermore.
World War One Trenches.
Remembrance Sunday - Lest We Forget.
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Travel Photography.
Nomadic Gatherings:
By Michel Guntern.
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