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MEUSE-ARGONNE AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL

Click here to see a large view of the Memorial Pool.

   This video presents a brief narrated tour of Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery's landscaped grounds, architecture, and works of art.

Meuse-Argonne.wmv - windows media video ( 12 MB )


Within the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial in France, which covers 130.5 acres, rest the largest number of our military dead in Europe, a total of 14,246. Most of those buried here lost their lives during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I. The immense array of headstones rises in long regular rows upward beyond a wide central pool to the chapel that crowns the ridge. A beautiful bronze screen separates the chapel foyer from the interior, which is decorated with stained-glass windows portraying American unit insignia; behind the altar are flags of the principal Allied nations.

On either side of the chapel are memorial loggias. One panel of the west loggia contains a map of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Inscribed on the remaining panels of both loggias are Tablets of the Missing with 954 names, including those from the U.S. expedition to northern Russia in 1918-1919. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.

The cemetery is open daily to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except December 25 and January 1. It is open on host country holidays. When the cemetery is open to the public, a staff member is on duty in the Visitor Building to answer questions and escort relatives to grave and memorial sites.

Photos

Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
Roses and distant grave plots
Grave plots
Cemetery entrance gate
Medal of Honor recipient
Grave plot
Fountain Lillie pad
Visitor center
Memorial building walkway
Central mall with visitor center
Memorial chapel interior
Aerial View of Cemetery

How to Get There

GPS Coordinates: N49 20.044 E5 05.376

Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery is located east of the village of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon (Meuse), France, which is 26 miles northwest of Verdun. It may be reached by automobile from Paris (152 miles) via toll autoroute A-4 or highway N-3, to Ste. Menehould, continuing on N-3 to Clermont-en-Argonne (19 miles south of the cemetery) and continuing via Varennes-en-Argonne. It may also be reached from Verdun, where hotels are available, via Consenvoye or Dun-sur-Meuse, distances of 26 or 29 miles. Rail service from Paris (Gare de l'Est) to Verdun takes about 3˝ hours. Taxis are available from there to the cemetery.

For More Information

  1. If you have Adobe Acrobat, you may download a cemetery booklet with or without pictures. If you do not have a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader currently installed on your PC, you will need to download and configure a free copy before you can read and print the booklet.

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  2. You may contact us for information about this cemetery with our online electronic form.



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