The Lafayette Escadrille Memorial Cemetery, located within the Domaine National de Saint-Cloud, will be closed at 2 p.m. local time on Sept. 8, 2018
Cambridge American Cemetery will participate in Open Cambridge in September.
By late spring 1943 the Allies had ejected Axis forces from North Africa and had their sights set on invading the Italian mainland. But to do so, they first would have to gain control of Sicily, and its surrounding minor islands.
Suresnes American Cemetery, located just outside of Paris, is one of nine World War I cemeteries managed by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).
Louisiana provided about 80,000 men to the U.S. armed forces during World War I. The 39th (National Guard) Division drew units and troops from Louisiana, and Louisiana provided many of the original selected servicemen to the 87th Division as well.
In World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, millions of Americans served far from home. In the various conflicts, service members fought in the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. They traversed mountains in Italy, France, Korea and Vietnam.
Family members of World War II Radioman 2nd Class Julius Pieper gathered at Normandy American Cemetery in France today, 74 years after his death, to attend his burial.
The remains of a U.S. sailor recently accounted-for from World War II will be interred with full military honors at Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on June 19, 2018.
Before the United States entered World War I in April 1917, German U-boats sunk more than 880,000 tons of shipping—a wartime peak that reduced British grain stores to a six weeks’ supply.