The American Cemetery & Memorial

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The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines

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The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines occupies 152 acres on a prominent plateau. It contains the largest number of graves of soldiers dead on World War II, a total of 17,202, most of whom lost their lives in operations in New Guinea and the Philippines. The headstones are aligned in 11 plots forming a generally circular pattern, set among masses of a wide variety of tropical trees and shrubbery.

1942-1945
Map of Air Assult on Japan on one of the walls

"THE CAPTURE OF IWO JIMA IN FEBRUARY & MARCH OF 1945
WAS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO THE AIR ASSAULT ON JAPAN.
THE AIRFIELDS THERE ESTABLISHED SERVED AS A BASE FOR
FIGHTERS ESCORTES AND A HEAVEN FOR DAMAGED BOMBERS MAKING
THE LONG OVERWATER RETURN TO THE MARINAS."

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This cemetery is the largest cemetery in the Pacific for US personnel killed during the second world war. Here are inscribed the names of 36,282 of the Missing who gave their lives in the service of America and who rest in unknown graves.

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