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Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
Cimetière américain de Colleville-sur-Mer
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War II American military cemetery on a bluff above Omaha Beach in Colleville‑sur‑Mer, France. The site contains thousands of white marble headstones set in formal plots, a semicircular limestone memorial with a central bronze statue, a Wall of the Missing, and a multiconfessional chapel with a mosaic ceiling and marble altar.
First raised
1944
Its prime
1956
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1956
What Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial looked like in its prime.
A broad, clipped green lawn carpeted by regimented rows of white Lasa‑marble Latin crosses and Stars of David forms the cemetery’s foreground. At the eastern approach a semicircular colonnade of medium‑hard Burgundy limestone frames a raised plaza with a 22‑foot bronze youth statue. Low curved walls bearing engraved names, formal flowerbeds, specimen pines and clipped conical yews punctuate the geometry; beyond the bluff the English Channel stretches to the horizon.
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9 places to explore in 1956.
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