Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial
American Battle Monuments Commission
Cambridge American Cemetery headstones, with the memorial building behind.
Used for those deceased 1941 - 1945
Established	1943
Location	near Cambridge, England
Designed by	Perry, Shaw, Hepburn and Dean Olmsted Brothers (landscaping)
Total burials	3,812
Unknown burials	24
Statistics source: American Battle Monuments Commission

Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial is a cemetery and chapel near the village of Madingley in Cambridgeshire. It was opened in 1956, and commemorates the American servicemen who died in World War II. It is run by the American Battle Monuments Commission. The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is a small independent agency of the Executive Branch of the United States federal government. ... Geography Status City (1951) Region East of England Admin. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... The Olmsted Brothers company was an extremely influential landscape design firm in the United States, formed in 1898 by step-brothers John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920) and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. ... Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. ... Madingley is a village near Coton on the western outskirts of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. ... Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs) is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is a small independent agency of the Executive Branch of the United States federal government. ...

The cemetery

The cemetery has approximately 3,812 graves of servicemen who died in the area, including airmen over Europe and sailors from North Atlantic convoys.

The chapel

The imposing chapel is made of portland stone; the doors of teak are embellished with relief models of WWII military equipment. A great map on the wall shows schematically the air sorties flow from East Anglia, together with convoys across the North Atlantic and other actions in the war. The chapel wall and roof has a mosaic of angels and ghostly aircraft.

Showing the air sorties from East Anglia

The chapel roof, mixing angels and aircraft

External link

• ABMC website for Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial