“A soldier lettering burial bag for American dead at a temporary cemetery near the allied beachhead in France,“ 6/8/1944
Local Identifier: 80-G-252670. Record Group 80: General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1804 - 1983.
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“Flags line the driveway and adorn each grave at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in observance of Memorial Day,” 5/27/1991
Photographer: OS2 John Bouvia. Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007. Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008.
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“American cemetery, Romagne, France. German prisoners in foreground building roads and laying sod,” 5/25/1919
Series: Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981. Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985.
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“Funeral of Baron von Richthofen, Bertangles, 22.4.18. Bringing the coffin into the cemetery. (Somme and Ancre Area).”
Scene during funeral services of Baron von Richthofen, Bertangles, France. 4-22-1918
Series: British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918. Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952
German fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the “Red Baron,” was shot down and killed over Allied lines on April 21, 1918. Members of the Australian Flying Corps organized a full military funeral for Richthofen on April 22, 1918.
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“A bugler blows taps at the close of Memorial Day service at Margraten Cemetery, Holland, where lie thousands of American heroes of World War II.”
From the series: Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981
Established on November 10, 1944, the Netherlands American Cemetery at Margraten is the permanent resting place for 8,301 American military service members, most killed during the liberation of Holland and the advances across the Rhine river in 1944-1945. The cemetery is now administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission.
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Morning view of Barrancas National Cemetery on Veterans Day, 11/11/1982
Arlington National Cemetery
The cemetery, administered by the Department of the Army, was designated an official military cemetery in 1864. More than 300,000 veterans from all of the nation’s wars are buried there.
- View in Arlington National Cemetery, ca. 1865 by Matthew Brady
- Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, May 30, 1961.
On this day in 1918, the Second Battle of Marne began.
This photograph of the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery was taken in 1928.
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