Cambridge - American Cemetery & War Memorial RP 1950s

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• Picture / Image:  The Memorial, North Elevation - American Cemetary and Memorial, Cambridge - real photo
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial is a cemetery and chapel between the villages of Coton and 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 cemetery contains 3,809 headstones, with the remains of 3,812 servicemen,^[1] 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 who died in the Battle of the Atlantic or in the strategic air bombardment of northwest Europe.

The memorial building is 85 ft long, 30 ft wide and 28 ft high; it is made of portland stone; the doors of teak are embellished with relief models of WWII military equipment. The memorial is separated into a large museum room with a small chapel at the far end from the doors. A great map on the wall shows schematically the air sorties flown from East Anglia, together with convoys across the North Atlantic and other actions in the war. The wall and roof has a mosaic of angels and ghostly aircraft.