Overseas American military cemetery
North Africa American Cemetery
Tunisia
Location
North Africa American Cemetery, rue Roosevelt, Carthage, Tunisia
Visiting
- Address
- North Africa American Cemetery, rue Roosevelt, Carthage, Tunisia
- Phone
- Not yet verified
- 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.
At the 27-acre North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial in Tunisia rest more than 2,800 of our military dead, their headstones set in straight lines subdivided into nine rectangular plots by wide paths, with decorative pools at their intersections.
Along the southeast edge of the burial area, bordering the tree-lined terrace leading to the memorial is the Wall of the Missing. On this wall more than 3,700 names are engraved. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. Most honored here lost their lives in World War II in military activities ranging from North Africa to the Persian Gulf.
The chapel and the memorial court, which contain large maps in mosaic and ceramic depicting the operations and supply activities of American forces across Africa to the Persian Gulf, were designed to harmonize with local architecture. The chapel interior is decorated with polished marble, flags, and sculpture.
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. North Africa American Cemetery (official page). Retrieved November 11, 2026.