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OISE-AISNE AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL

Click here to see a large view of the Memorial from the Graves Area.

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

Oise-Aisne.wmv - windows media video ( 11 MB )


The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial in France contains the remains of 6,012 American war dead, most of whom lost their lives while fighting in this vicinity in 1918 during the First World War. Their headstones, aligned in long rows on the 36.5-acre site, rise in a gentle slope from the entrance to the memorial at the far end. The burial area is divided into four plots by wide paths lined by trees and beds of roses; at the intersection are a circular plaza and the flagpole.

The memorial is a curving colonnade, flanked at the ends by a chapel and a map room. It is built of rose-colored sandstone with white trim bearing sculptured details of wartime equipment. The chapel contains an altar of carved stone. Engraved upon its Walls of the Missing are 241 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. The map room contains an engraved and colored wall map portraying the military operations in this region during 1918.

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

Oise-Aisne American Cemetery
Cemetery entrance path
Cemetery view
Grave plots
Cemetery overview
Memorial detail
Memorial chapel
Wall of the missing
Fallen American
Entrance gate detail
Memorial building

How to Get There

GPS Coordinates: N49 12.134 E3 32.894

Oise-Aisne American Cemetery lies 1½ miles east of Fère-en-Tardenois (Aisne), France, which is 14 miles northeast of Chateau-Thierry. It may be reached by automobile from Paris by toll autoroute A-4 taking the Chateau-Thierry exit (49½ miles), turn left onto highway D-1, continue to Fère-en-Tardenois (12 miles). Hotels are available in Chateau-Thierry, Reims (27 miles) and Soissons (18 miles). There is rail service to each of these cities where taxicabs may be hired.

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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