ABMC: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
Watercolor painting of a green field with an orange-blue sky and several structures in the distance.
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  • Color photograph of a large cemetery with white headstones and large hedges sectioning off a variety of areas. In the foreground are trees and a pond with flowers and bushes. In the background, there is a white building with archways, a large door and stairs leading up to it, along with trees and two American flags on poles.

    Spanning more than 130 acres, the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery contains the largest number of American military burials in Europe from World War I. More than 14,000 American servicemembers are buried within the cemetery, most of whom died during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Long rows of white headstones rise across the landscape toward a memorial chapel overlooking the site, transforming the scale of wartime loss into a place of ordered memory and reflection.

    Black and white photograph of a large cemetery with white headstones. In the foreground are trees and a pond. In the background, there is a large flag pole.

    Designed not only as a cemetery but as a permanent landscape of national memory, Meuse-Argonne preserved the names of the fallen so future generations could continue to witness the scale of sacrifice carried by individual lives. Attribution: Object ID: 2006.114.51