American War Cemetery Hamm

Location:

The American War Cemetery Hamm is near a place called Hamm, not from the Luxembourg, the capital of Luxembourg.

Description

This is one of the 15 American War Cemeteries with the American dead of the first and second world war. The cemetery contains the remains of 5076 soldiers died during the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of the Huertgenwald. One of the soldiers buried is the General George Patton jr., who died in a car accident in 1945.

  The entrance of the cemetery.
     
  The graves.
     
  The grave of George Patton jr.
All pictures are taken in 1997.    

 

 

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