Military Cementaries

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29 September 2017

To enhance our knowledge of The Battle of the Bulge gained when we visited the museum at Bastogne, today we visited the American and German military cemeteries in Luxembourg. They respectively contain the graves of 5,076 and 10,913 soldiers. They were both developed from provisional cemeteries created by the American Burial Service who began recovering bodies from both nations in late 1944. The American cemetery originally contained 8,412 bodies but in 1947, at the wishes of the relatives, some were returned to the USA to be buried there. The American Cemetery is maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission and the German one by public donations and volunteer labour.

After lunch we left Luxembourg, entered France and drove 175k south east to a campsite outside the town of Phalsbourg, 35k east of Strasbourg.

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