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The Netherlands American Cemetery at Margraten holds roughly 8,200–8,301 U.S. World War II dead and another ~1,722 names on the Walls of the Missing; many of those buried fell in late‑1944 airborne op...
A community and researchers pushed for a memorial at Margraten because 172–174 African American servicemen who helped liberate and build the Netherlands American Cemetery are buried or memorialized th...
The memorialization of Black American soldiers at Margraten grew out of the literal presence of hundreds of African American GIs who helped build and maintain the cemetery and who are themselves burie...
African American soldiers played multiple roles in the European theater of World War II — from front‑line combatants to quartermaster graves‑registration teams who buried the dead — and their service ...