The bodies of approximately 14,000 American soldiers who fell in Normandy were repatriated to the United States after the war.
Those that were left, often buried in temporary cemeteries, were brought together at Colleville-sur-Mer (Normandy American Cemetery) and Saint-James (Brittany American Cemetery).

Designed in a neo-classical style, the American cemeteries feature long rows of white headstones stretching across vast expanses of land granted to the United States by the French Government in 1956.