Covering 130.5 acres, the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorials rest the largest number of American military dead in Europe, with a total of 14,246. Most of those buried here lost their lives during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I.
The immense array of headstones rises in long regular rows upward beyond a wide central pool to the chapel that crowns the ridge. 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.