Interior Map

HOLD IT HIGH!” The platform affords
an excellent view of the cemetery.

The great mall, with its reflecting
pools bordered by polyantha roses,
stretches eastward from the flagpole
platform to the Memorial at the op-
posite end. Along the south side of
the mall are the Tablets of the Miss-
ing. The north side, toward the
graves area, is lined with a single row
of double-pink hawthorn trees.

The west mall stretches northward
from the flagpole platform to the
lower gates of the cemetery and the
service area. This broad walk passes
between rows of Japanese pagoda
trees. The grave plots lie between the
two malls. From the lower end of the
west mall, a gravel walk turns to the
tight and follows the curve of the
lower plot toward the Memorial. In
this area are planted rose of Sharon,
firethorn, forsythia and cotoneaster.

THE MEMORIAL

The Memorial structure is of Portland
stone, as are St. Paul’s Cathedral and
many other monumental buildings
in London. It is 85 feet long, 30 feet
wide and 28 feet high. On the north
face of the Memorial are five pylons,
each inscribed with one of the years
from 1941 to 1945, during which the
United States participated in World
War II. Above these pylons runs the
inscription: GRANT UNTO THEM O
LORD ETERNAL REST. Below the bronze
rope railing on the north face balcony
is inscribed: IN GRATEFUL TRIBUTE TO
THEIR SACRIFICE AND IN PROUD
MEMORY OF THEIR VALOR.

The entrance to the Memorial at
the west end is framed by two
pylons. On the pediment above them
is the dedication: TO THE GLORY OF
GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO
DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY 1941-1945.

The main entrance doors are of
teakwood. They bear bronze models
of the following military equipment
and naval vessels:

Military Equipment
Armored Scout Car M8
Truck 1% Ton 4x4
90 Millimeter Antiaircraft Gun
155 Millimeter Gun M2
Medium Tank M4
Motor Carriage, Multiple Gun
M16
Amphibious Truck 242 Ton
DUKW
105 Millimeter Howitzer

Naval Vessels

Destroyer

Light Cruiser
Attack Transport
Landing Ship, Tank
Battleship

Escort Carrier

On the south exterior wall of the
Memorial is a great map of the
United Kingdom with the inscrip-
tion: THESE AND MANY OTHER SITES
WERE LENT BY THE PEOPLE OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM TO THE ARMED
FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA IN ORDER THAT THEY MIGHT
PREPARE AND SUPPORT THEIR GREAT
MILITARY ASSAULTS 1941-1945. It de-
picts each location in the United
Kingdom where an American unit of
battalion or larger size was stationed
during World War II. The places
where units of brigade size or larger
were stationed are indicated by.
name. The map also shows the prin-
cipal air and sea approach routes to
Great Britain from the United States,
and the invasion routes to North
Africa in 1942 and to Normandy in
1944. It is embellished with the sculp-
tured coats of arms of the United
States and the United Kingdom. The
significance of the signs and colors
used is explained in the legend.
Worksheets for the map were fur-
nished by the American Battle
Monuments Commission; execution
was by the English artist David
Kindersley of Cambridge.


18

HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY

A COMRADE IN ARMS
KNOWN BUT TO GOD

Decorated Gravesite of a World War II “Unknown”

THE AMERICAN
BATTLE MONUMENTS
COMMISSION

ESTABLISHED BY CONGRESS MARCH 1923

UNITED STATES OFFICE

American Battle Monuments Commission
Court House Plaza II

Suite 500

2300 Clarendon Boulevard

Arlington, VA 22201

Telephone: (703) 696-6897

(703) 696-6896

FAX: (703) 696-6666

Web site: www.abme.gov

EUROPEAN OFFICE

Street Address:

68, rue du 19 Janvier

92380 - Garches, France

Mailing Address:
American Battle Monuments Commission
PSC 116

APO AE 09777

Telephone: (011-33) 1-4701-1976

(from U.S. & other countries)
33-0-1-4701-1976

(within France)

Fax: (011-33) 1-4741-1979

MEDITERRANEAN OFFICE

Street Address:

American Battle Monuments Commission.
clo US, Embassy

Via Sallustiana 49

00187 Rome, Italy

Mailing Address:

American Battle Monuments Commission
Unit 9500, Box 11

DPO AE 09624-0011

Telephone: (011-39) 06-4674-3084

Fax: (011-39) 06-487-1624

PHILIPPINE OFFICE

Street Address:

Manila American Cemetery
and Memorial

McKinley Road, Global City
Taguig, Philippines

Mailing Address:

Manila American Cemetery
PSC 513, Box 5

DPO AP 96515-1800
Telephone: (011-632) 844-0212
FAX: (011-632) 812-4717

19


Exterior of Visitors’ Building

TINUED TO FLY MISSIONS AT NIGHT. THE
OBJECTIVE WAS THE PROGRESSIVE DIS-
LOCATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE
ENEMY’S MILITARY, INDUSTRIAL AND
ECONOMIC SYSTEM. EVER PRESENT WAS
THE NECESSITY OF BEATING DOWN THE
GERMAN FIGHTERS WHICH ATTACKED
OUR HEAVY BOMBERS FIERCELY AND
PERSISTENTLY.

WITH THE ALLIED LANDINGS IN ITALY
IN SEPTEMBER 1943 CAME OPPORTUNITY
FOR ATTACK FROM ANOTHER DIREC-
TION. THE U.S, FIFTEENTH AIR FORCE
JOINED WITH THE EIGHTH TO FORM THE
U.S. STRATEGIC AIR FORCES IN EUROPE.
MASSIVE ATTACKS ON CRITICAL IN-
DUSTRIAL TARGETS FORCED THE GER-
MAN AIR FORCE TO FIGHT FOR THEIR
PROTECTION. IN A SERIES OF VIOLENT
BATTLES THE ENEMY AIR ARM WAS
BROKEN, NEVER AGAIN TO BE A SERIOUS.
MENACE. IN MARCH 1944 THE U.S. NINTH
AIR FORCE AND THE BRITISH SECOND
TACTICAL AIR FORCE INITIATED
CONCENTRATED ATTACKS ON THE
ENEMY’S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
AND COASTAL DEFENSES IN BELGIUM
AND NORTHERN FRANCE. THE U.S.
EIGHTH AIR FORCE, WHILE CONTINUING

12

ITS STRATEGIC ATTACK, AUGMENTED
THIS ASSAULT.

ON 6 JUNE 1944, ALLIED FORCES
CROSSED THE ENGLISH CHANNEL TO
STORM THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY IN
THE GREATEST AMPHIBIOUS OPERATION
RECORDED IN HISTORY. THE ABSENCE OF
SERIOUS NAVAL AND AIR OPPOSITION
ATTESTED TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF
ALLIED OPERATIONS DURING THE LONG
MONTHS OF PREPARATION THAT HAD
PRECEDED THE LANDINGS. FOLLOWING
THE SUCCESS OF THIS ASSAULT,
THOUSANDS OF MEN AND MILLIONS OF
TONS OF SUPPLIES WERE MOVED OVER
THESE BEACHES THROUGH ARTIFI-
CIALLY CREATED HARBORS. WITH
NAVAL GUNFIRE AND AIR SUPPORT,
BEACHHEADS WERE CONSOLIDATED
AND THE ALLIED ARMIES MOVED FOR-
WARD.

THROUGH THE REMAINING MONTHS
OF THE WAR THE ALLIED MILITARY
STRENGTH GREW STEADILY AS TROOPS,
EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES FLOWED
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. THE COMBINED
BOMBER OFFENSIVE CONTINUED TO
STRIKE AT STRATEGIC MILITARY AND IN-
DUSTRIAL TARGETS WITH EVERMOUNT-

ING INTENSITY AS THE GROUND FORCES
PUSHED ONWARD INTO GERMANY.

ON 8 MAY 1945, 337 DAYS AFTER THE
LANDINGS IN NORMANDY, CAME VIC-
TORY.IN EUROPE. es

The seals of the War and Navy
Departments as well as the principal
decorations awarded by our Armed
Services are depicted in glass panels
beside and above the main door to
the Memorial. The decorations
shown are listed below:

War Department
Air Medal
Distinguished Flying Cross
Silver Star
Distinguished Service Cross
Medal of Honor — Army
Distinguished Service Medal —

Army
Soldier's Medal

Navy Department
Purple Heart
Bronze Star
Legion of Merit

Interior of Visitors’ Building

Navy Cross

Medal of Honor — Navy

Distinguished Service Medal —
Navy

Navy and Marine Corps Medal

The other windows of the Memo-
rial contain stained-glass replicas of
the seals of the states of the Union
arranged from left to right, in the
order in which they entered the
Union. Above them are the seals of
the United States (obverse and
reverse), the District of Columbia,
Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Over the teakwood doorway to the
chapel is the following inscription in
bronze characters: INTO THY HANDS O
LORD.

The words FAITH and HOPE in
bronze letters are set into the chancel
rail in the chapel. A cloth of mail is
spread over the Portland stone altar
on which rests a large bronze cross.
At the altar base rests the Tablets of
Moses. Flanking the altar are two
large ornamental candelabra, also
embellished with mosaic.

13


10

Exterior Map

The interior of the Memorial is
separated into a large museum room
and a small devotional chapel at the
far end. The outstanding feature of
the museum room is its impressive
map “The Mastery of the Atlantic —
The Great Air Assault.” The map was
designed by the American artist
Herbert Gute from data prepared by
the American Battle Monuments
Commission and indicates the prin-
cipal sea routes across the Atlantic
and the types of naval and commer-
cial craft which bore men and muni-
tions to Europe from the United
States. It also recalls the aircraft
which operated in the anti-sub-
marine campaign. The continuous
air assaults by the U.S. and Royal Air
Forces over Europe are also depicted.
Symbolic air lanes indicate their
routes from both England and Italy to
the various targets, whose nature —
military, industrial, transportation —
are explained in the legend. The map
is 30 feet long, 18 feet high.

The wall bearing the map is of Port-
land stone. On the map, the lower
land elevations are indicated in pol-
ished Portland stone, while the
higher elevations are in polished
Hauteville marble, Lunel Clair
marble and Lunel Fonce marble,
respectively. This unusual work of art
was executed by David Kindersley’s
workshop.

Below the map are seven plates, six
of which contain key maps recording
the development of the war against
Germany and the war against Japan.
The seventh, a bronze plaque in the
center, bears the following descrip-
tion of the operations portrayed by
the great map: THRUST INTO A GLOBAL
WAR WITH THE AXIS POWERS, THE
UNITED STATES, AT THE CLOSE OF 1941,
MOVED TO STRENGTHEN ITS DEFENSE
POSITIONS IN THE ATLANTIC AND
PACIFIC OCEANS. THE PROTECTION AND
CONTROL OF THE SEA AND AIR ROUTES
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, SO VITAL TO THE

ALLIES’ HOPES OF VICTORY, WERE CON-
CERNS OF UNCEASING URGENCY. THE
UNITED STATES NAVY JOINED WITH THE
ROYAL NAVY IN THIS BITTERLY CON-
TESTED BATTLE; U.S. ARMY AND MARINE
CORPS UNITS WERE DISPATCHED TO
STRENGTHEN KEY OUTPOSTS IN THE
NORTH ATLANTIC AND TO REINFORCE
‘THE DEFENSE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.
WHILE THE ENEMY MADE EVERY EFFORT
TO SEVER THE LIFELINES TO THE BRITISH
ISLES, THE ALLIED NAVIES FOUGHT TO.
KEEP THE SEA LANES OPEN, TO CONVOY
TROOPS AND MILITARY AND CIVILIAN
SUPPLIES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC AND
TO MAINTAIN THE LONG RUN TO NORTH
RUSSIA TO SUSTAIN THE SOVIET FORCES.

CONTINUOUSLY THE ALLIES STROVE
TO DEVELOP AND IMPROVE THEIR ANTI-
SUBMARINE TACTICS, TO PROVIDE ADE-
QUATE ESCORT AND AIR COVERAGE TO
THEIR CONVOYS. THE COORDINATED
EMPLOYMENT OF LAND-BASED AIR-
POWER AND OF ESCORT CARRIER AND
DESTROYER GROUPS, TOGETHER WITH
DEVELOPMENTS IN DETECTION DEVICES,
GRADUALLY DROVE THE ENEMY‘S SUB-
MARINES FROM THE PRINCIPAL SEA
ROUTES.

THIS WAR OF ATTRITION ON, ABOVE,
AND BELOW THE WATERS OF THE
ATLANTIC STEADILY TURNED IN FAVOR
OF THE ALLIES.

IN NOVEMBER 1942, ALLIED FORCES
LANDED ON THE SHORES OF NORTH
AFRICA. THIS SUCCESSFUL OPERATION
INVOLVED THE SIMULTANEOUS DE-
BARKMENT OF ATTACK TEAMS TRANS-
PORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES AND
THE UNITED KINGDOM.

THROUGHOUT THE BATTLE OF THE
ATLANTIC THE UNITED STATES ARMY
AIR FORCES OVERSEAS CONTINUED TO
GROW IN THE URGENT EFFORT TO BUILD
OVERWHELMING AIR STRENGTH. THE
FIRST AMERICAN STRATEGIC BOMBING
MISSION WAS UNDERTAKEN IN AUGUST
1942. BY THE SUMMER OF 1943 THE U.S.
EIGHTH AIR FORCE WAS CONDUCTING
LARGE-SCALE DAYLIGHT BOMBING
ATTACKS; THE ROYAL AIR FORCE CON-

u


Airman

Sailor

Coast Guardsman

SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC

Upon request, and without cost, the

following information and services

are provided to family members

and friends of those interred or com-

memorated at ABMC’s cemeteries

and memorials:

¢ name, location and general infor-
mation about the cemetery, monu-
ment or memorial;

¢ plot, row and grave number and, if
applicable, memorialization site;

¢ authorization for issuance of fee-
free passports for members of the
immediate family traveling over-
seas specifically to visit an ABMC

grave or memorialization site;

¢a photograph of grave and/or
memorialization sites affixed to a
large color lithograph of the ap-
propriate cemetery and memorial;

¢ best route and modes of travel in-
country to cemetery or memorial
site;

* general information about accom-
modations in the vicinity of the
cemetery or memorial;

arrangement for floral decoration
of a grave or memorialization
site. (Weather permitting, a color
photograph of the floral decora-
tion in place is provided to the
donor).

Corozal American Cemetery, Corozal, Republic of Panama

17


Cambridge American Cemetery
and Memorial

a3 ai
} i a “3
i q Lae

atgte ttt ale
2 - a sr vit Le
it!

= atire A
ig) i ty

it
"i s

= ——*
—
—s
—s
—

The American Battle Monuments Commission


2009

Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial, Seine, France


A mosaic by Francis Scott Bradford
of Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut
depicting the Archangel trumpeting
the arrival of the Resurrection and
the Last Judgment covers the wall
above the altar and continues across
the entire ceiling of the Memorial,
with pictures of ghostly aircraft,
accompanied by mourning angels,
making their final flight. The deep
blue of the ceiling denotes the depth
of infinity, while the lighter colors
reflect the light of Heaven breaking
through the earthly layers of the sky.
The lighter nimbus surrounding
each of the single-engine, twin-
engine and four-engine aircraft sep-
arates them from earthly forces while
they carry the souls of the men who
perished in the skies. Around the
ceiling is the following inscription:
IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF
THOSE MEN OF THE UNITED STATES
ARMY AIR FORCE WHO FROM THESE
FRIENDLY ISLES FLEW THEIR FINAL
FLIGHT AND MET THEIR GOD. THEY
KNEW NOT THE HOUR THE DAY NOR THE
MANNER OF THEIR PASSING. WHEN FAR
FROM HOME THEY WERE CALLED TO
JOIN THAT HERIOIC BAND OF AIRMEN
WHO HAD GONE BEFORE. MAY THEY
REST IN PEACE.

The ship and aircraft depicted
above the altar memorialize the
members of the naval sea and air
forces who are buried or commemo-
rated at the cemetery. The crosses
and Stars of David symbolize those
who are buried beneath the ground.
Mourning angels and the inscription
from the 23rd Psalm: HE RESTORETH
MY SOUL — HE MAKETH ME TO LIE
DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES, also enter
into the design.

THE TABLETS OF THE MISSING

The Tablets of the Missing are in-
scribed on a wall of Portland stone, a
limestone quarried on the south
coast of England, 472 feet in length.
Recorded on the Tablets are the

14

names and particulars of 5,126 Miss-
ing in Action, lost or buried at sea, or
those “Unknowns” whose remains
could not be positively identified
prior to interment. They come from
every state of the Union and the Dis-
trict of Columbia.

United States Army and

Army Air Forces? . . 3,524
United States Navy .. 1,371
United States Coast Guard .. 201
United States Marine Corps. 30

At the top of the wall above the
names running its full length is the
following extract from the dedication
by President Dwight Eisenhower of
the Golden Book enshrined to St.
Paul’s Cathedral, London. ”THE
AMERICAN’S WHOSE NAMES HERE
APPEAR, WERE PART OF THE PRICE THAT
FREE MEN FOR THE SECOND TIME IN
THIS CENTURY HAVE BEEN FORCED TO
PAY TO DEFEND HUMAN LIBERTY AND
RIGHTS. ALL WHO SHALL HEREAFTER
LIVE IN FREEDOM WILL BE HERE
REMINDED THAT TO THESE MEN AND
‘THEIR COMPARES WE OWE A DEBT TO BE
PAID WITH GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE
OF THEIR SACRIFICE AND THE HIGH
RESOLVE THAT THE CAUSE FOR WHICH
THEY DIED SHALL LIVE ETERNALLY.”

Along the wall are four statues de-
signed by Wheeler Williams of New
York, New York and carved by Eng-
lish craftsmen; a soldier, a sailor, an
airman and a Coast Guardsman. The
paving is of English York sandstone.

THE GRAVES AREA

The 3,811 headstones in the fan-
shaped graves area are arranged in
seven curved grave plots, A-G. The
headstones within the plots are
aligned in seven rows of concentric
arcs whose wide sweep across the
green lawns may be best viewed

1 During World War Il the Air Forces were
part of the Army.

from the mall near the Memorial.
From the north edge of the flagpole
platform another feature of the
pattern is evident — the headstones
are also aligned like the spokes of a
wheel. Each grave plot is enclosed by
a boxwood hedge with tulip trees,
catalpa, beech, oak and liquidambar
(sweetgum) also present.

These Dead, who gave their lives
in our country’s service, came from
every State in the Union, the District
of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the
Philippines. Some also entered the
Services from Canada, Chile, Den-
mark, England, Greece, Holland,
Malta, Norway, Panama, Portugal
and Scotland. Twenty-four of the
headstones mark the graves of
“Unknowns.”

Among the headstones are two
which represent burials of two and
three servicemen, respectively,
whose names are known but could

Mosaic Ceiling of Chapel

not be separately identified. Their
remains are buried together; bronze
tablets over the graves record their
names.

VISITORS’ BUILDING

Immediately inside the main en-
trance to the cemetery is the Visitor’s
Building. It contains the Superin-
tendent’s office and a comfortably
furnished room where visitors
may obtain information, sign the
register and pause to refresh
themselves. During visiting hours
a member of the cemetery staff is
available in the building to answer
questions and provide information
on burials and memorializations
in the Commission’s cemeteries,
accommodations in the vicinity,
travel, local history and other items
of interest.

15


North Africa and fought their way
inland in the face of determined
enemy resistance. Six months later,
victory in North Africa was achieved
when all enemy forces there surren-
dered. The operations in North
Africa were followed by Allied land-
ings in Sicily, Salerno and Anzio dur-
ing 1943 and 1944. Victories in Sicily
and Italy were paralleled by Soviet
successes in the East, with the win-
ning of the battle for Stalingrad in
February 1943 and the liberation of
Sevastopol in May 1944. One month
later, Allied forces entered Rome,
and the landings in Normandy
commenced.

The third objective during the war
against Germany was to conduct an
intensive strategic bombardment of
Germany in order to destroy its mili-
tary, industrial and economic sys-
tems. Achievement of this objective
depended on the use of air bases
within the British Isles. As the air-
fields were constructed and ex-
panded, the air war against Germany
intensified. The first American
strategic bombing against a target in

Europe took place in August 1942. By
the end of the war, more than one-
half million sorties against targets in
western Europe were flown by
British-based American aircraft.
The final objective was to invade
the European continent and defeat
the enemy on its historic battlefields.
U.S. and British Commonwealth
forces landed on the beaches of Nor-
mandy on 6 June 1944 in what was to
be the greatest amphibious opera-
tion in the history of warfare. Sup-
ported by U.S. and British aircraft,
the Allied ground forces fought their
way across France and crossed into
Germany in September of 1944.
With the Allied victory in Europe
on 8 May 1945, the struggle against
the enemy in the Pacific was intensi-
fied. Confronted by overwhelming
military superiority, its -major cities
devastated and weakened by the
defeat of the Axis in Europe, Japan
surrendered on 2 September 1945.

THE SITE

The Cambridge American Cemetery,
30.5 acres in extent, is one of fourteen

Entrance to the Great Mall and Graves Area

permanent American World War II
military cemetery memorials erected
on foreign soil by the American
Battle Monuments Commission.

It was established as a temporary
military cemetery in 1943 on land
donated by the University of Cam-
bridge. The site was later selected as
the only permanent American World
War II military cemetery in the
British Isles and was dedicated 16
July 1956. About 42 percent of those
temporarily interred in England and
Northern Ireland during the war
were reinterred in the Cambridge
American Cemetery. A high pro-
portion of these 3,812 American
servicemen and women were crew
members of British-based American
aircraft. Most of the others interred at
the cemetery died in the invasions of
North Africa and France, in the train-
ing areas of the United Kingdom and
in the waters of the Atlantic.

The cemetery is situated on the
north slope of a hill from which Ely
Cathedral, 14 miles distant, can be
seen on.clear days. It is framed by
woodland on the west and south; the
road to Madingley runs along the
cemetery’s northern boundary.

ARCHITECTS

Architects for the cemetery were
Perry, Shaw, Hepburn and Dean of
Boston, Massachusetts. The land-
scape architects were Olmsted
Brothers of Brookline, Massachu-
setts.

GENERAL LAYOUT

The main entrance is at the south-
west corner of the cemetery. Im-
mediately inside it is the Visitors’
Building. On the porch wall of the
Visitors’ Building is a bronze tablet
from the grateful people of the Eng-
lish communities of Cheshunt and
Waltham Cross which honors the
members of an American bomber
crew who sacrified themselves in
order to avoid abandoning their dis-
abled aircraft over these communi-
ties.

Just beyond the Visitors’ Building
is a72-foot flagpole on a tall platform
whose base is inscribed with the
following quotation from John
McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Fields:
“TO YOU FROM FAILING HANDS WE
THROW THE TORCH — BE YOURS TO


Overall View of Cemetery

eee

Lquunrens

VISITORS BUILOING

Location of Cemetery Features

Germany, with its great military and
industrial strength, posed the
strongest threat of the Axis powers
and should be dealt with first. Its
defeat hinged on achieving four
major objectives, for each of which
effective use of Great Britain was a
key factor. In the attainment of these
objectives, the country became a vast
supply depot, military base, air base
and training and staging facility.
During the war, more than 17 million
tons of cargo and nearly two million
servicemen and women from the
United States passed through British
ports. Many military bases and train-
ing areas were established through-
out the British Isles to receive the
forces which later were to achieve
such spectacular results on the
beaches of Normandy. At the same
time, airfields were enlarged and
additional bases constructed for use
by U.S. Army Air Forces.

The first objective in the war
against Germany was to provide the
United Kingdom with the resources

needed to carry on until sufficient
men, materials and supplies could be
assembled for a cross-channel inva-
sion of Europe. To do so, the Atlantic
sea lanes had to be made safe for the
passage of Allied convoys between
Great Britain and the United States.
The battle for the Atlantic continued
from 1939 to 1945, when the last
German U-Boats surrendered. This
costly, but generally successful,
struggle gave the Allies control of the
sea lanes between the United States
and Great Britain, which was essen-
tial to the success of Allied operations
in Europe.

The second objective was to aid
and sustain other nations actively
engaged against the Axis, partic-
ularly the U.S.S.R., which at the
time was receiving the brunt of the
enemy’s land assaults. A “second
front” was opened in North Africa in
November 1942 to relieve the pres-
sure against the U.S.S.R. Allied
forces from bases in both Great Brit-
ain and the United States landed in


Memorial Interior

Cambridge

Anerican

Cemetery
and

Memorial

LOCATION

The Cambridge American Cemetery
and Memorial is situated three miles
west of the university city of Cam-
bridge, on highway A-1303 and 60
miles north of London, England.

There is frequent train service
between Cambridge and London’s
King’s Cross or Liverpool Street Sta-
tions. Travel time is about 11/2 hours.
Taxicab service is available at the
Cambridge Station.

The cemetery may be reached in
about 2% hours from London, via
highway M-11 and exit 13. There are
excellent hotels in the city of Cam-
bridge.

HOURS

The cemetery is open daily to the
public between the hours of 9:00 a.m.
and 5:00 p.m. (The cemetery is closed
on January 1 and December 25. It
is open on all other U.S. and host
country holidays.)

During these hours, a staff
member is on duty at the Visitors’

Building to escort relatives to grave
or memorialization sites.

HISTORY

When the United States entered
World War II, it was apparent that

Chapel Interior