How many graves are at d-day memorial site in France?

Answer 1

The American cemetery at Normandy is the NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL located at Collieville sur Mur. This is the one that was filmed in the beginning and end of the movie "Saving Private Ryan". The official government site that has the history of the American cemeteries around the world is American Battle Monuments Commission or www.abmc.gov.

This ABMC site has a data base of the names and units of the American soldiers buried there at Normandy. You can search by names or by units and it will give you the soldier's name, rank, serial number, date of death, burial cemetery and burial plot location.

Note that the soldiers buried at this cemetery includes soldiers that died at places other than Normandy. Someone showed me a Father and Son who is buried there beside each other. The Father was Col. Ollie Reed of the 29th Infantry Division that landed on Omaha Beach and was killed about 30 July. His son was a Lt Ollie Reed Jr. of the 91st Infantry Division who died on 6 July in Italy.

Go to the ABMC site and read the history and statistics. The cemetery also has a list of the soldiers who were Missing in Action.