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08-AUG-2009

"Who sleep in unknown graves"

Captions reads

1941 1945
ON THE GREAT WALL LEADING TO THE CHAPEL ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF AMERICANS WHO IN THIS AREA OF OPERATIONS OR IN THE WATERS OF THE ATLANTIC GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY AND WHO SLEEP IN UNKNOWN GRAVES"


Initially there were 5,126 names on the wall but since then some (less than 20) have been found, most recently in 2000 9 crewmen from the same aircraft were recovered and buried either in this cemetery or elsewhere, according to their families wishes.

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