Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial

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The American Military Cemetery of Saint-James (Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial) is an American military cemetery located in the U.S. state of Brittany. It was built on the commune of Montjoie-Saint-Martin in the immediate vicinity of Saint-James, the canton's capital of the Manche department.

This cemetery gathers the bodies of 4,410 American soldiers who died during the Second World War, most of them during the Normandy and Brittany campaigns in 1944. On a wall are engraved the names of 498 soldiers whose bodies were not found.