Cambridge - American Cemetery & memorial - Dennis postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  The USA Cemetery [and memorial] - Cambridge 
• Publisher: Dennis (C. 0332)
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Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War II American military war grave cemetery, located between the villages of Coton and Madingley, 7 km (4.3 mi) north-west of Cambridge, England. The cemetery, dedicated in 1956, contains 3,811 American war dead and covers 30.5 acres (12.3 ha). Cambridge American Cemetery is one of 26 overseas military cemeteries administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).[1]

The memorial is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England.[2]

The University of Cambridge[3][4] donated 30.5 acres of land on the north slope of Madingley Hill to the American military forces for use as a temporary cemetery during World War II in 1943. Following the war, the American Battle Monuments Commission selected Cambridge as the site for America's permanent World War II cemetery and war memorial in the United Kingdom. America's war dead from three temporary cemeteries in the British Isles were consolidated into the Cambridge cemetery during an extensive cemetery construction project, and simultaneously the US Government repatriated approximately 58% of the existing war dead at the request of the surviving family members. Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial was dedicated on 16 July 1956.[3]

The cemetery contains 3,809 headstones, with the remains of 3,812 servicemen,[5] including airmen who died over Europe and sailors from North Atlantic convoys. The inscribed Wall of the Missing includes four representative statues of servicemen, sculpted by American artist Wheeler Williams. The wall records the names of 5,127 missing servicemen, most of whom died in the Battle of the Atlantic or in the strategic air bombardment of northwest Europe.[6]

Besides personnel of the United States armed forces there are also buried 18 members of the British Commonwealth armed services, who were American citizens serving chiefly in the Royal Air Force and Air Transport Auxiliary, besides an officer of the Royal Canadian Air Force and another of the British Royal Armoured Corps, whose graves are registered and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.[7]

In May 2014 a new visitor centre opened, containing exhibits about some of those individuals interred or remembered at the cemetery, and the wider World War II campaigns in which they were involved.[4]

Notable burials and memorials

Flag-draped coffins of American soldiers at a military funeral ceremony at cemetery

John Martin Howard (1917–1942), US Navy officer – (memorial – buried at sea)

John Joseph Seerley Jr. (1897–1943), pilot in both World War One and World War Two

Vincent F. Harrington (1903–1943), US Representative and US Army Air Forces officer

Glenn Miller (1904–1944), jazz bandleader and trombonist (memorial – lost at sea)

Damon Jesse Gause (1915–1944), fighter pilot

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915–1944), eldest son of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald (memorial – lost at sea)

Leon Vance (1916–1944), US Army Air Forces pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (memorial – lost at sea)

Three of the crew of USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress Mi Amigo, which crashed in Sheffield, killing all 10 crew (seven later repatriated to the US)