Florence American Cemetery and Memorial information
War cemetery in Italy
Florence American Cemetery and Memorial
American Battle Monuments Commission
Florence American Cemetery and Memorial, Tuscany, Italy
For American fallen – liberation of Italy (1944)
Established
1944
Location
near
Florence, Italy
Designed by
McKim, Mead & White, New York (MONUMENT) Clarke & Rapuano, New York (LANDSCAPERS)
Total burials
4402
Commemorated
1409
Burials by nation
United States of America
Burials by war
World War II
Statistics source: ABMC Florence cemetery booklet
The Florence American Cemetery and Memorial is about 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) south of Florence, Italy, about two miles (3 km) south of the Florence-Impruneta exit of the Rome-Milan autoroute. It covers about 70 acres (28 ha), chiefly on the west side of the Greve river, framed by wooded hills.
Most of those buried here are from the Fifth Army who died in the fighting that followed the capture of Rome in June 1944; others fell in the heavy fighting in the Apennines between then and 2 May 1945. It is run by the American Battle Monuments Commission.
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