486 are Unknowns.
The cemetery contains no multiple burials. Each of the Dead has his own headstone of
white marble, a Star of David for those of the Jewis h faith and a Latin cross for all others.
On either side of the chapel are memorial loggias. One panel of the west loggia contains a map of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Inscribed on the remaining panels of both loggias are Tablets of the Missing with 954 names, including those from the U.S. expedition to northern Russia in 1918-1919. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.
THE NAMES HERE RECORDED ARE THOSE OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO
FOUGHT IN THE REGION AND WHOSE EARTHLY RESTING PLACE IS KNOWN
ONLY TO GOD.
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