| Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial | |
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| American Battle Monuments Commission | |
 Cambridge American Cemetery headstones, with the memorial building behind. The American Battle Monuments Commission ( ABMC) is a small independent agency of the United States government. |
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| Used for those deceased 1941 - 1945 | |
| Established | 1943 |
| Location | near Cambridge, England |
| Designed by | Perry, Shaw, Hepburn and Dean Olmsted Brothers (landscaping) |
| Total burials | 3,812 |
| Unknown burials |
24 |
| Statistics source: American Battle Monuments Commission | |
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial is a cemetery and chapel near the village of Madingley in Cambridgeshire. The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Olmsted Brothers company was an influential landscape design firm in the United States formed in 1898 by stepbrothers John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920 and Frederick A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. Madingley is a village near Coton and Dry Drayton on the western outskirts of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. History Cambridgeshire is noted as the site of some of the earliest known Neolithic permanent settlement in the United Kingdom, along with sites at Fengate It was opened in 1956, and commemorates the American servicemen who died in World War II. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including It is run by the American Battle Monuments Commission. The American Battle Monuments Commission ( ABMC) is a small independent agency of the United States government.
The cemetery
The cemetery has approximately 3,812 graves of servicemen who died in the area, including airmen over Europe and sailors from North Atlantic convoys.
The chapel
The imposing chapel is made of portland stone; the doors of teak are embellished with relief models of WWII military equipment. 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 chapel wall and roof has a mosaic of angels and ghostly aircraft.
 Showing the air sorties from East Anglia |
 The chapel roof, mixing angels and aircraft |
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