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Normandy, Flanders Field and other overseas cemeteries of the American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC) are well known. However, lesser-known burial sites of American war dead exist all over the world--in Australia and across the Pacific Rim, in Canada and Mexico, Libya and Spain, most of Europe and as far north as the Russian Arctic. This is the history of American soldiers buried abroad since the American Revolution. It traces the evolution of American attitudes and practices about war dead and provides the names and locations of those still buried abroad in non-ABMC locations.
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"At one point, we stopped amid the headstones of members of U.S. Forces who had rested at Brookwood since World War I, and the Director pointed to a patch of grave markers away from the main cemetery, at the edge of a woods. 'Those are all Americans, too,' he said, 'but nobody seems to know about them.' We walked to the very neat rows of stones, which were designed and placed differently than those of Brookwood's official American burials. They told of service in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps and similar forces, but, with a few exceptions, they did not note that the deceased were American citizens.Who were these Americans, why were they there, what was their experience, how were they perceived by their own country, what were their circumstances after returning from war? "
from Americans at War in Foreign Forces.
In the picture: Chris Dickon tells the stories of Americans in Commonwealth Forces buried in Heverlee War Cemetery, Belgium, Memorial Day 2014.
Chris Dickon is a former, Emmy and multi-award winning public radio and television producer who brings the qualities of broadcast storytelling to books that tell little known but important stories of American history.
