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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