Overseas American military cemetery
Brittany American Cemetery
France
Location
Brittany American Cemetery, Route de Montjoie, Montjoie-Saint-Martin, France
Visiting
- Address
- Brittany American Cemetery, Route de Montjoie, Montjoie-Saint-Martin, France
- Phone
- +33 (0)2 33 89 24 90
- Visiting hours
- 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open to the public daily including host country holidays, except for December 25 and January 1.
- Accessibility
- Not yet verified
- Official page
- abmc.gov
Admission and hours, from the American Battle Monuments Commission
Business Hours
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9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Please note, admission to the cemetery ends at 4:45 p.m., 15 minutes before closing time.
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Open to the public daily including host country holidays, except for December 25 and January 1.
When open, a staff member is on duty in the visitor building to answer questions and escort relatives to grave and memorial sites.
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Admission is FREE and does not require booking in advance.
Pay your respects
Visitors to veterans’ graves sometimes leave a coin on the headstone to show that someone came. You can leave a symbolic coin here. No money is involved, and nothing about you is published. About the custom, and what each coin is said to mean.
About this cemetery
Reproduced from the American Battle Monuments Commission’s own description of this cemetery, retrieved November 11, 2026. This is the agency’s text, unedited; it is not independent research by this site.
The Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial in France covers 28 acres of rolling farm country near the eastern edge of Brittany and contains the remains of more than 4,400 of our war dead, most of whom lost their lives in the Normandy and Brittany Campaigns of 1944.
Along the retaining wall of the memorial terrace are inscribed the names of 500 of the missing. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.
The gray granite memorial, containing the chapel as well as two large operations maps with narratives and flags of our military services, overlooks the burial area. Stained glass and sculpture embellish the structure. The cemetery is located on the site of the temporary American St. James Cemetery, established on Aug. 4, 1944, by the U.S. Third Army. It marks the point where the American forces made their breakthrough from the hedgerow country of Normandy into the plains of Brittany during the offensive around Avranches, France.
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Sources
- American Battle Monuments Commission. Cemeteries and memorials. U.S. government work (public domain). Retrieved November 11, 2026. Used for: name, location and contact details, and the hours and description where shown.
- American Battle Monuments Commission. Brittany American Cemetery (official page). Retrieved November 11, 2026.