Cimetière américain - Omaha Beach
(American cemetery (Omaha Beach))

Cimetière Américain de Normandie 14710 COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER
Tel. : +33 2 31 51 62 00
Fax : +33 2 31 51 62 09
Site : www.abmc.gov

The Normandy American Cemetery, which was inaugurated in 1956, lies at the heart of a vast seventy-hectare site granted to the United States by the French Government.

Overlooking Omaha Beach, it contains 9,386 white marble crosses or stars of David arranged in impeccable rows. A father and son lie side by side, as do some thirty-three pairs of brothers. 307 headstones simply bear the words “Known but to God”. 

The graves belong not only to the soldiers who fell on Omaha Beach on June 6th 1944, but also to service personnel who were killed elsewhere in Normandy and were initially buried in temporary cemeteries such as the one at Sainte-Mère-Eglise. Several years after the war, their bodies were exhumed and transferred to the symbolic site of Omaha.
 

D-Day - The onslaught