How did the United States and their armed forces take care of the bodies of the American soldiers killed there in Normandy after the allied landing of June 6th, 1944? How to explain the creation of an American cemetery in what was formerly only cultivated grounds? With hundreds of thousand of visitors every year, the cemetery at Colleville preserves the memory of the 9387 soldiers who died. Looking at unpublished documents, press articles and testimonies, the author examines one of the most visited historic sites of Normandy in-depth. b/w photographs
