Overseas American military cemetery
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
France
Location
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Rue du Général Pershing, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, France
Visiting
- Address
- Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Rue du Général Pershing, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, France
- Phone
- +33 (0)3 29 85 14 18
- 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
-
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Please note, admission to the cemetery ends at 4:45 p.m., 15 minutes before closing time.
-
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.
-
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.
Within the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial in France, which covers 130.5 acres, rests the largest number of our military dead in Europe, more than 14,200. Most of those buried here lost their lives during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I.
The immense array of headstones rises in long regular rows upward beyond a wide central pool to the chapel that crowns the ridge. A beautiful bronze screen separates the chapel foyer from the interior, which is decorated with stained-glass windows portraying American unit insignia; behind the altar are flags of the principal Allied nations.
On either side of the chapel are memorial loggias. One panel of the west loggia contains a map of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Inscribed on the remaining panels of both loggias are Tablets of the Missing with almost 1,000 names, including those from the U.S. expedition to northern Russia in 1918-1919. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.
A renovated, 1,600-square-foot visitor center reopened in November 2016. Through interpretive exhibits that incorporate personal stories, photographs, films, and interactive displays, visitors gain a better understanding of the critical importance of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive as it fits into the Great War.
Nearby veterans cemeteries
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. Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery (official page). Retrieved November 11, 2026.