Aisne Marne American Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 49.078460, 3.291781
Location: Belleau, Aisne
Record count: 3,100

Ownership: American Battle Monuments Commission

Directions: Rue des Chevaliers de Colomb, 02400 Belleau, France.

Background: With headstones lying in a sweeping curve, the 42.5-acre Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial in France, sits at the foot of Belleau Wood. The cemetery contains the graves of 2,289 war dead, most of whom fought in the vicinity and in the Marne Valley in the summer of 1918. In addition, there are 1,060 names of American military missing in action inscribed on the interior walls of the Memorial Chapel. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. During World War II the chapel was damaged slightly by an enemy shell.

Belleau Wood adjoins the cemetery and contains many vestiges of World War I. A monument at the flagpole commemorates the valor of the U.S. Marines who captured much of this ground in 1918.

Burial Records

• Burial Records, by Interment.net, April 1, 2017, (3,100 records)

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