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Cimetière Américain de Normandie
With an area of seventy hectares, the American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer is one of the fourteen American cemeteries of the Second World War.
The American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer is one of the fourteen American cemeteries of the Second World War on foreign soil, and is managed by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
On this vast rectangular space are lined up 9,386 graves, each topped by a headstone of white Italian marble in the shape of a Latin cross, or a Star of David.
To the right of the entrance is a capsule that will be opened only on 6 June 2044, a century after D-Day: it contains press articles of the time, and a message from Eisenhower addressed to future generations.
