Lorraine American Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 49.122010, 6.717150
Location: Saint-Avold, Moselle
Record count: 10,931

Ownership: American Battle Monuments Commission

Directions: Avenue de Fayetteville, 57500 St. Avold, France. Lorraine American Cemetery sits less than one mile north of the town of St. Avold, France.

St. Avold is 28 miles east of Metz, France and 17 miles southwest of Saarbrücken, Germany. The cemetery can be reached by car from Paris via the toll autoroute A-4.

Background: The cemetery site covers 113 1/2 acres of rolling landscape on the west edge of Saar mining region. Immediately to the north and east are natural stands of oak, pine and other trees; these have been extended by a planted enframement around the northeast and south sides.

A temporary American cemetery was established on 16 March 1945 about one-half mile to the south of the present cemetery. The surrounding area was liberated by troops of the 80th Infantry Division on 27 November 1944. When Lorraine American Cemetery was built, the present site was chosen because of its superior location, prospects and aspect. It is the largest American military cemetery of WWII in Europe. Buried here are American military dead representing 41% of the burials which were originally made in this region.

Most of those interred here gave their lives during the advance to the Rhine and the advance across Germany in the Spring of 1945. Construction of the cemetery and memorial was completed in 1960.

Burial Records

• ABMC Burial Records, by Interment.net, November 1, 2019, (10,931 records)

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