Overseas American military cemetery
Rhone American Cemetery
France
Location
Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial, Boulevard John Kennedy, Draguignan, France
Visiting
- Address
- Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial, Boulevard John Kennedy, Draguignan, France
- Phone
- +33 (0)4 94 68 03 62
- 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 site of the Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial in France was selected because of its historic location along the route of the U.S. Seventh Army’s drive up the Rhone Valley. It was established on Aug. 19, 1944, after the Seventh Army’s surprise landing in southern France.
On 12.5 acres at the foot of a hill clad with the characteristic cypresses, olive trees, and oleanders of southern France, rest more than 850 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the liberation of southern France in August 1944. Their headstones are arranged in straight lines, divided into four plots, and grouped about an oval pool. At each end of the cemetery is a small garden. On the hillside overlooking the cemetery is the chapel with its wealth of decorative mosaic and large sculptured figures. Between the chapel and the burial area, a bronze relief map recalls military operations in the region. On the retaining wall of the terrace, almost 300 names of the missing are inscribed. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.
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. Rhone American Cemetery (official page). Retrieved November 11, 2026.