The American Cemetery is located in Colleville-Sur-Mer, in Normandy, in France. It is composed of a large lawn with burials, a memorial, a chapel and a Museum. The whole site was designed by the H2L2 architectural firm and Markley Stevenson for landscaping. . It covers 172 acres (70 hectares). It was inaugurated in 1956.


This Cemetery is linked with the popular memory, which goes that all the soldiers of the Cemetery who were killed during D-Day. But it is also a great symbol for the US. The Challenge for the Cemetery nowadays is to keep conveying the events to the next generations. It was estimated that the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day in 2014 was the last great event in the Cemetery, with witnesses of the event.


Léandre, Manon