Cambridge American Cemetery

I visited the Cambridge American Cemetery this week. It was stunning! The cemetery is 30.5 acres and was constructed on land donated by the University of Cambridge in 1944. After the war, it was selected as the only WWII cemetery in the British Isles. A high portion of those buried were temporarily interred in England and Northern Ireland and represent American servicemen and women who served as crew members of British-based American aircraft. Most of the others died in the invasions of North Africa and France as well as the training areas of the UK and the waters of the Atlantic. The cemetery has a memorial chapel, tablets of the missing inscribed on a wall measuring 427 feet long, and 3810 headstones.