Netherlands American Cemetery to host summer guided tours

The American Battle Monuments Commission will host summer guided tours at Netherlands American Cemetery daily from 11 a.m. to noon, July 4 through Aug. 31. 

Developed by site staff, these special summer guided tours will teach guests facts about the cemetery and memorial, and the service members buried and memorialized there.  

All tours are free, open to the public, and will be provided in Dutch. For a tour in English, please contact the site staff at +31 43 45 81 208 or [email protected]. Visitors should meet in front of the Visitor Center to join a tour. 

Netherlands American Cemetery is the only cemetery in the Netherlands dedicated to honoring fallen Americans who served during World War II. The site was liberated Sept. 13, 1944, by troops of the U.S. 30th Infantry Division, who were advancing northeastward toward the Roer River in Germany, as part of the U.S. First Army. A battlefield cemetery, one of the first to be used to bury American service members who fell in Germany, was established here Nov. 10, 1944, by the U.S. Ninth Army. Approximately 8,300 U.S. service members are buried at the site and more than 1,700 others are memorialized on its Walls of the Missing. Bronze rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.