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Most of the soldiers were buried at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial near Collieville Sur Mur just next to UTAH beach. This is the cemetery where the scene was shot at the beginning and end of the movie "Saving Private Ryan".
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 and the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery site, at the north end of its ½ mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,387 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. On the Walls of the Missing in a semicircular garden on the east side of the memorial are inscribed 1,557 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.
After the war ended, the government shipped some of the bodies back to the States for local burial by their families. There are still several thousand American buried there at this cemetery, which is actually consider American soil.
Link to American Battle Monuments Commision site, where you can search for names of soldiers: www.abmc.gov
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