American Battle Graves Archive

Lorraine American Cemetery

Saint-Avold, France

10,489

Graves

444

Tablets of the Missing

113.5 acres

Acres

About this cemetery

The Lorraine American Cemetery contains the largest number of American dead of World War II in Europe — 10,489 — many of whom died while driving the German forces from the fortress city of Metz toward the Siegfried Line and the Rhine.

Location & directions

The cemetery is situated at Saint-Avold, in the Moselle department of northeastern France.