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Where Heroes Lie Memorials of American WWI dead abroad
Prepared by National Geographic Society this piece surveys the American Battle Monuments Commission and its war memorials in France Belgium and England. It describes Montsec Montfaucon Hill 204 Belleau Wood and other sites with chapels reception rooms and inscriptions honoring 1 289 unknowns and 64 000 casualties among about 300 000 American servicemen in the Aisne Marne Meuse Argonne and St Mihiel theaters.
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American Battle Monuments Commission
Congress
John J. Pershing
France
Belgium
England
Wbleven
Brest
Gibraltar
Montfaucon
Ypres
Chateau-Thierry
Montsec
St. Mihiel
United States
Arlington National Cemetery
Aisne-Marne
Meuse-Argonne
Lorraine
Channel
Paris
Aisne
Chateau Thierry
Vesle
Marne Valley
Aisne- Marne
Belleau Wood
Irereen-Tardenois
Ourcq River
Quise-Aisne
Fere
Verdun
Meuse
Moselle
Pont-a-Mousson
Metz
Vosges Mountains
Salient
Thiaucourt