Normandy American Cemetery overlooking Omaha beach.

The American cemetery in Normandy is one of the most visited sites in Normandy. Around one and a half million visitors. 9388 graves have 9386 bodies interred. Learn some of the stories about these men. The first, the youngest, oldest, the medals of honor, famous brothers..
The cemetery is sited overlooking Omaha beach, the bloodiest of the five D-day beaches.

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00:00 Intro
00:27 Raising the flags
00:30 100,000 soldiers buried in Normandy
01:25 American Battle Monuments commision
02:20 Howard Henry Ranger First death
03:00 Four airmen buried behind each other
04:20 Identification
05:15 Roy Talhelm youngest soldier
05:40 Oldest soldier
06:00 Niland brothers Saving Private ryan
07:05 Generals
08:00 First cemetery on Omaha beach
09:15 60% were repatriated
10:40 1000 yds leveled
12:00 Unknown soldiers
12:25 Crosses aligned by string
12:46 St James Brittany cemetery
13:00 Women buried
13:44 Medals of Honor
14:30 Wall of the missing
14:54 Simonetti found
15:30 Two unidentified bodies identified
17:00 Design of cemetery
17:58 Bedford boys
19:00 Leopoldville disaster
20:00 Train wreck
21:00 Non Normandy graves
23:00 Peiper twin brothers reunited in 2018
24:00 Gardners maintenance
24:55 Flag ceremony taps







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Visited and Projected sites:
Why D-Day
Pegasus bridge
Omaha beach
Sword beach
Pointe du Hoc
American airborne
Utah beach
Juno beach
Gold beach
British airborne
Saint Marie du Mont
Waverly Wray
Omaha inland
6th June 2020 76th anniversary.
La Fierre
Michael Wittman - Villers Bocage - Gaumesnil
The Malmann line
Band of Brothers
Merville gun battery
Filthy Thirteen
Worthington Force
Falaise pocket
Taking St Lo
Operation Cobra
Longues gun battery
Taking Cherbourg
Operation Bleucoat
General Falley
Arromanches and the Mulberries
82nd airborne
101st airborne
Donald Burgett
Operation Totalise
Graignes massacre
Joe Beryle
Ed Shames
Angoville au plain
Battle of Bloody gulch
Maisy gun battery.
Abbey d'Ardenne and the Canadian 7th June advance
Hillman
Douvre radar station

Photo credits
US national archives
Bundes archives