The date was June 6, 1944.
On June 6, 2024, we commemorated the 80th anniversary of D-Day. May we remember the fallen and honor the legacy of those who changed the course of history.
Learn more: ABMC commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
On June 6, the American Battle Monuments Commission commemorated the 80th anniversary of D-Day at Normandy American Cemetery.
Nearly 10,000 people attended the ceremony, including ABMC commissioners, U.S. senators, U.S. members of Congress as well as other U.S. and French representatives.
Learn more: ABMC commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
On June 7, 2023, ABMC will inter the remains of an unknown WWI soldier at Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France, one of ABMC’s eight WWI cemeteries located overseas.
The full honors military burial follows a year-long process to exhume remains and artifacts, and to identify the soldier’s nationality in order to provide a final resting place.
This is the first burial of an unknown from WWI since 1988, and the first burial at Oise-Aisne American Cemetery since it was dedicated in 1937.
Shown in the visitor center at Netherlands American Cemetery, this 15-minute film gives powerful insight into the true cost of war in Europe during World War II, through both historic and modern-day imagery as well as recollections from letters by service members and family members.
Valor and Sacrifice, touches on the intensity and hardship of the fighting in some of the most crucial battles of World War II: Operation Market-Garden, the Hürtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge.
The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) was created in 1923 to commemorate the service and sacrifice of the U.S. Armed Forces.
More than 200,000 American fallen and Missing in Action (MIA) are interred and honored at our cemeteries and memorials.
ABMC is proud to bring you a series of brand-new videos that highlight the beauty, sanctity and serenity of our sites.
Whether you have visited an ABMC cemetery or want to, we hope you will enjoy this introduction to our cemeteries and how the fallen are honored every day.
Memorials overlooking the water in both New York City and San Francisco honor World War II service members who lost their lives at sea.
The East Coast Memorial in New York City’s Battery Park, on the southern tip of Manhattan, lists the names of 4,611 service members who died during the war in the Atlantic Ocean. About 3,000 miles away, the West Coast Memorial honors all the service members who died in American coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
The Lafayette Escadrille Memorial Cemetery commemorates the birthplace of American combat aviation, and serves as a symbol of the Franco-American comradeship during World War I.
This site honors the American volunteer pilots who flew with French squadrons during the Great War, and is the final resting place for some of America’s first combat aviators and their French Officers.
Clark Veterans Cemetery is located about 50 miles north of Manila, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
It is one of only two American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries open to new burials.
More than 8,800 servicemembers and their family members rest here – Americans and Filipinos side by side.
The Honolulu Memorial is located within the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known by many as the Punchbowl, in Hawaii. The names of nearly 29,000 service members are recorded on a total of eight panels within the Courts of the Missing a that sits atop the cemetery. The memorial was established by ABMC to honor the sacrifices and achievements of American armed forces in the Pacific during World War II and the Korean War. The memorial grew in 1980 to include the missing of the Vietnam War.
In keeping with our promise that time shall not dim the glory of their deeds, ABMC is committed to continue our traditions in whatever form they must take.
