Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial

Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial

Infobox Military Cemetery
name=Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial
body=American Battle Monuments Commission


caption=View of headstones and memorial
use_dates=1944-1946
established=August 1944 (Completed 1956)
designer= Henry J. Toombs, Atlanta
(MONUMENT)A. F. Brinckerhoff, New York (LANDSCAPER)
coordinates=
nearest_town= Draguignan, (Var), France
total= 861
unknowns= 62
commemorated= 294
by_country=United States
by_war=World War II
source= [http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/rh_pict.pdf ABMC Rhone Cemetery booklet]

The Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial is an American war cemetery in Southern France, memorializing American soldiers and mariners who died in Second World War operations in that area. The cemetery covers 12 acres within the city of Draguignan. The cemetery is named for the Rhone river and its watershed, where most of most of those interred fought and died. The cemetery adjoins the civilian cemetery of the city of Draguignan. It was started during WWII combat operations in 1944, with the memorials, landscaping, and improvements added after the war. The cemetery was built and is operated by the US Government, with support from the host country of France.

Those interred died mostly in the summer of 1944 during Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of Southern France from the Mediterranean, which followed the Allied invasion of Normandy. This operation was designed to open a second beachhead and Allied combat zone in France, threatening the Axis units confronting the Normandy combat zone, and thus to accelerate the Allied drive into Western Europe. Those interred were mainly part of the U.S. Seventh Army, in particular the US 45th Infantry Division, the US 36th Infantry Division, and the US 3rd Infantry Division.

The cemetery is in the shape of an oval, with a perimeter wall of local limestone, a memorial with chapel, and some supporting buildings. The cemetery is administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission.

ee also

* [http://www.abmc.gov/home.php American Battle Monuments Commission home page]
* [http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/rh.php ABMC Rhone cemetery web page]
* [http://media.oaktreesys.com/abmc/video/cemeteries/rh.wmv ABMC Rhone cemetery video .wmv]
* [http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/rh_pict.pdf ABMC Rhone cemetery booklet .pdf]


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