D-DAY CEMETERY ESTABLISHED IN FRANCE
Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy • June 8, 1944 On this date in 1944, 2 days after the D-Day landings, a small piece of Normandy, France, became the site of the first American military cemetery to be established in Europe during World War War II. On that first day the makeshift graveyard near the badly damaged village of…