THE AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION - www.abmc.gov
| 405,399 | Americans lost their lives during World War II |
| 93,233 | are interred in American military cemeteries abroad |
| 78,983 | are commemorated on Tablets of the Missing as missing in action, lost or buried at sea. |
| CEMETERY/MEMORIAL (World War II) |
BURIALS | MISSING |
| Ardennes American Cemetery | 5,323 | 463 |
| Brittany American Cemetery | 4,409 | 498 |
| Cambridge American Cemetery | 3,812 | 5,127 |
| East Coast Memorial | 0 | 4,611 |
| Epinal American Cemetery | 5,255 | 424 |
| Florence American Cemetery | 4,402 | 1,409 |
| Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery | 7,992 | 450 |
| Honolulu Memorial | 0 | 18,096 |
| Lorraine American Cemetery | 10,489 | 444 |
| Luxembourg American Cemetery | 5,076 | 371 |
| Manila American Cemetery | 17,201 | 36,285 |
| Netherlands American Cemetery | 8,301 | 1,722 |
| Normandy American Cemetery | 9,387 | 1,557 |
| North Africa American Cemetery | 2,841 | 3,724 |
| Rhone American Cemetery | 860 | 294 |
| Sicily-Rome American Cemetery | 7,861 | 3,095 |
| Suresnes American Cemetery | 24 | 0 |
| West Coast Memorial | 0 | 413 |
| TOTALS | 93,233 | 78,983 |
*Source: The American Battle Monuments Commission
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