Cimetière Militaire Américain
(American cemetery and memorial)

50240 SAINT-JAMES
Tel. : +33 2 33 89 24 90
Fax : +33 2 33 89 24 91
Website : www.abmc.gov

Initially intended as a temporary cemetery during the Avranches thrust in the first days of August 1944, the Brittany American Cemetery was officially opened in 1956.

Covering an area of some twelve hectares granted to the United States by the French Government, the 4,410 crosses or stars of David mark the graves of men who fell during the fighting to liberate not only Normandy but Brittany, too.

The counter-attack