American Battle Monuments Commission
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987007585568105171
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Name (Latin)
American Battle Monuments Commission
Other forms of name
ABMC (American Battle Monuments Commission)
United States. American Battle Monuments Commission
United States. Battle Monuments Commission
Coordinates
-77.0888628 -77.0888628 38.8900446 38.8900446 (gooearth )
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Sources of Information
- Amer. battle monuments, c1989:t.p. (American Battle Monuments Commission) p. ix (ABMC)
Wikipedia description:
The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is an independent agency of the United States government that administers, operates, and maintains permanent U.S. military cemeteries, memorials and monuments primarily outside the United States. There were 26 cemeteries and 31 memorials, monuments and markers under the care of the ABMC. There are more than 140,000 U.S. servicemen and servicewomen interred at the cemeteries, and more than 94,000 missing in action, or lost or buried at sea are memorialized on cemetery Walls of the Missing and on three memorials in the United States. The ABMC also maintains an online database of names associated with each site.
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