A shuttle bus takes you from the train station to Verdun. Non-stop train (TGV) service from the Gare de l'Est train station in Paris to the Meuse-TGV train station near Verdun takes about one hour. If driving from Verdun travel via Consenvoye or Dun-sur-Meuse, and follow the signs for American Cemetery. Once there, follow signs for the American Cemetery. Travel by car from Paris is approximately 152 miles via toll highway A-4 and takes about three hours. Those traveling from Paris should use exit 29.1 near the village of Clermont-en-Argonne and then travel north via the small town of Varennes-en-Argonne. An alternative to GPS coordinates, users can input Rue de General Pershing in the city of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon.
The cemetery is 26 miles northwest of the city of Verdun. Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery is located next to the village of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon in the Meuse region of Northeast France. Through interpretive exhibits that incorporate personal stories, photographs, films, and interactive displays, visitors will gain a better understanding of the critical importance of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive as it fits into the Great War. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.Ī renovated, 1,600-square-foot center visitor center reopened in November 2016. expedition to northern Russia in 1918-1919. Inscribed on the remaining panels of both loggias are Tablets of the Missing with 954 names, including those from the U.S. One panel of the west loggia contains a map of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
On either side of the chapel are memorial loggias.
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A beautiful bronze screen separates the chapel foyer from the interior, which is decorated with stained-glass windows portraying American unit insignia behind the altar are flags of the principal Allied nations. The immense array of headstones rises in long regular rows upward beyond a wide central pool to the chapel that crowns the ridge. Most of those buried here lost their lives during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I. Within the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial in France, which covers 130.5 acres, rest the largest number of our military dead in Europe, a total of 14,246.
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