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General George S. Patton was commander of the 3rd US Army which did a lot of the fighting in Luxembourg and Belgium. He was killed in a motor accident in Germany in December 1945. The building in the background is a memorial chapel  
   

General George S. Patton was commander of the 3rd US Army which did a lot of the fighting in Luxembourg and Belgium. He was killed in a motor accident in Germany in December 1945. The building in the background is a memorial chapel

Military Cementaries

September 29th 2017
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 ... read more
Europe » Luxembourg

Luxembourg Flag Founded in 963, Luxembourg became a grand duchy in 1815 and an independent state under the Netherlands. It lost more than half of its territory to Belgium in 1839, but gained a larger measure of autonomy. Full independence was attained in 1867. Overr... ... read more
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