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German War Cemetery Reillon

German War Cemetery Reillon

In Reillon, a Germen and a French war cemetery from the First World War are lying next to each other. After the Second World War, the German cemetery was extended for reburying all the German war casualties in the Meurthe-et-Moselle region.

The cemetery contains 2,586 German war graves from the Second World War. Of these, 330 are located in a mass grave.

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German War Cemetery Andilly

German War Cemetery Andilly

Andilly German War Cemetery is the largest German War Cemetery in France, with 33,085 graves from the Second World War.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/1875
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German War Cemetery Champigny-St.-Andre

German War Cemetery Champigny-St.-Andre

The German war cemetery Champigny-St.-André contains 19,809 graves from the Second World War. There is also a mass grave with 816 casualties. Of these, 303 are identified.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/3452
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German War Cemetery Mont-de-Huisnes

German War Cemetery Mont-de-Huisnes

This cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) lies 1 km north of Huisnes-sur-Mer, on a hill of 30 metres high.

It is different from ther cemeteries because the casualties are brought together in chambers, 180 casualties in each chamber. The chambers form a circle which is about 47 metres wide.

The cemetery contains 11,956 war graves.

http://www.ww2museums.com/a...
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German War Cemetery La Cambe

German War Cemetery La Cambe

German War Cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) with 21,160 graves.

The hill in the middle of the cemetery is a mass grave witch 296 casualties. When new German casualties worden found in Normandy, they will be buried in this hill. So the number of casualties on this cemetery is still rising.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/84
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German War Cemetery Marigny

German War Cemetery Marigny

This German War Cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) contains 11,172 graves, most of the casualties were buried here after the Second World War, when they were brought together from lonely fieldgraves and small cemeteries.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/121
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German War Cemetery Orglandes

German War Cemetery Orglandes

Shortly after the Second World War this cemetery contained 7,358 German casualties together with several thousands American soldiers.

When de American graves were removed to the American Cemetery Normandy, the remaining empty graves were used to bury German casualties from the wide surroundings.

Nowadays 10,152 German soldiers are buried on this cemetery
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German War Cemetry St. Desir-de-Lisieux

German War Cemetry St. Desir-de-Lisieux

The British grave-service buried 3,697 German casualties on this terrein and made it a German War Cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte). It is known as one of the cemeteries where Germen casualties who were found nowadays can be buried.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/120
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German War Cemetery Lommel

German War Cemetery Lommel

The largest German military cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) in Europe is situated in Lommel. Since 1946 39.099 soldiers who died in WWI but mainly in WWII are buried here. During the fighting in Belgium and Germany (mainly at Aachen and Düren) the Americans buried the German dead provisionally on 4 temporary cemeteries from which the dead were later brought over to Lommel. Thousands of German sol...
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German and French War Cemetery Strasbourg

German and French War Cemetery Strasbourg

This cemetery started in 1888 as a garnison cemetery. In the First World War it was used to bury 1717 German and 386 Franch soldiers, as well as 1164 POW’s of several nationalities.

In the Second World War the cemetery was used again to bury 1069 German and 1969 French soldiers who were killed in that war.
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German War Cemetery Bergheim

German War Cemetery Bergheim

The German war cemetery Bergheim, situated on Grasberg hill, contains 5,308 graves from the Second World War. They were brought together from 225 places in de Haut-Rhin region.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/3449
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German War Cemetery Niederbronn-les-Bains

German War Cemetery Niederbronn-les-Bains

Niederbronn-les-Bains German War Cemetery contains 15,413 graves from the Second World War.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/1874
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German War Cemetery Bourdon

German War Cemetery Bourdon

The German war cemetery Bourdon contains 22,213 graves from the Second World War. They were brought together to this cemetery from the regions Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Somme.

http://www.ww2museums.com/article/3450
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National War Cemetery of Sigolsheim

National War Cemetery of Sigolsheim

The national war cemetery of Sigolsheim contains the burials of 1.494 French soldiers who fell during the battle of the Colmar Pocket (20 January 1945 - 9 February 1945).
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Knightsbridge War Cemetery Acroma

Knightsbridge War Cemetery Acroma

The defence against Rommel's drive across Cyrenaica towards Suez consisted of a number of irregularly spaced strong points or 'boxes' linked by deep minefields. Those nearest the Axis forces were held by infantry, while those further back served as reserve static positions and as bases from which the armour could operate.

The chief 'box', known as Knightsbridge, was round a junc...
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Crashed B-24 Liberator Lady Be Good in Tobruk

Crashed B-24 Liberator Lady Be Good in Tobruk

Lady Be Good was an American B-24D Liberator of the United States Army Air Forces, serial number 41-24301, during World War II. Based at Benina Airfield in Soluch (today Suluq), Libya, it crashed in April 1943 returning from a mission and was later discovered in 1959 hundreds of miles into the Sahara with its crew mysteriously missing.

Following an April 4, 1943 bombing raid on N...
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German War Cemetery and Memorial Tobruk

German War Cemetery and Memorial Tobruk

In this memorial 6,026 German soldiers from the Battle of Tobruk were entombed after WW2.

http://www.volksbund.de/kgs/stadt.asp?stadt=1551

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gordontour/2986550967/
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German War Cemetery and Memorial El Alamein

German War Cemetery and Memorial El Alamein

The German Shrine, an ossuary containing the remains of 4,213 German soldiers who fell during the battle of El Alamein, was built in the style of a medieval fortress. Also 30 WW1 soldiers are buried here.

http://www.volksbund.de/kgs/stadt.asp?stadt=1092

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanlyden/1162413804/in/set-72157601464789601/

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Italian War Cemetery and Memorial El Alamein

Italian War Cemetery and Memorial El Alamein

The Italian Military Shrine of El Alamein, which houses the remains of about 5,200 Italian soldiers.br />
http://www.carabinieriparacadutisti.it/effettivi_del_tuscania.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_El_Alamein#Aftermath
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El Alamein War Cemetery

El Alamein War Cemetery

The campaign in the Western Desert was fought between the Commonwealth forces (with, later, the addition of two brigades of Free French and one each of Polish and Greek troops) all based in Egypt, and the Axis forces (German and Italian) based in Libya. The battlefield, across which the fighting surged back and forth between 1940 and 1942, was the 1,000 kilometres of desert between Alexandria i...
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Tobruk War Cemetery

Tobruk War Cemetery

Tobruk is a Mediterranean port with an excellent deep water harbour. During the war it was important to Allied and Axis forces alike, for the reception of supplies and reinforcements. In January 1941, it was taken from the Italians by General Wavell's forces, and after the clearance of the demolitions in the harbour the port was usable and proved invaluable.

When Rommel commenced ...
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Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial

Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial

The site of the Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial in France was selected because of its historic location along the route of the U.S. Seventh Army's drive up the Rhone Valley. It was established on August 19, 1944 after the Seventh Army's surprise landing in southern France.

On 12.5 acres at the foot of a hill clad with the characteristic cypresses, olive trees, and oleanders...
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Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial

Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial

The World War II Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial site in Italy covers 77 acres, rising in a gentle slope from a broad pool with an island and cenotaph flanked by groups of Italian cypress trees. Beyond the pool is the immense field of headstones of 7,861 of American military war dead, arranged in gentle arcs on broad green lawns beneath rows of Roman pines. The majority of these men ...
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Manila American Cemetery and Memorial

Manila American Cemetery and Memorial

The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines occupies 152 acres on a prominent plateau, visible at a distance from the east, south and west. It contains the largest number of graves of our military dead of World War II, a total of 17,202, most of whom lost their lives in operations in New Guinea and the Philippines. The headstones are aligned in 11 plots forming a generally circ...
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Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial

Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial

The Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial, 50.5 acres in extent, is situated in a beautiful wooded area. The cemetery was established on December 29, 1944 by the 609th Quartermaster Company of the U.S. Third Army while Allied Forces were stemming the enemy's desperate Ardennes Offensive, one of the critical battles of World War II. The city of Luxembourg served as headquarters for General G...
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