How do you locate WWII grave sites?
 

Is there a web site that lists the name and location of grave sites for servicemen killed in Europe in WWII? Does anyone know where to go to get this information?

Don't know what nationality you're interested in, but for service members from the British Commonwealth there's the Commonwealth War Graves Commission: <BR>http://www/cwgc.org. <BR> <BR>While looking for their URL, I happened to find a rather interesting BBC story about the Commission's going online: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/spe...000/212844.stm <BR> <BR>If nobody here can help you, you could look for a guidebook to Normandy or one of the more specialized travel books about the WWII sites. I seem to recall seeing the names of the proper authorities in some Normandy guidebooks while planning a trip.

If American, I can't tell you of a specific site, but I would try looking through the various web pages that the Pentagon has. They may have a way to request specific information. I have seen places where you can request military records.

When we were there in 1997, we stopped at an inland german cementary, the American cemetary, the bunkers, Omaha beach and the Pont. At one of these locations, I believe either the Pont or the Cemetary, they actually have a computer system that allows you to put in the name of the individual and the system will tell you the location. If I can find our brouchures it may indicate or possibly one of the Normandy web sites may provide additional data.

Do you know where the person was killed? We went to Luxembourg and we were looking for men in my Dad's unit. The office is run by Americans and they checked for the unit for us. The same for Normandy. Very well run and beautiful memorials. There is even an American cemetery outside of Florence. I still would like to know what fouled gronis means. I saw that in a German graveyard in Normandy.

flpab - this ancient thread from 1999 (!) was topped by an advertiser. The OP disappeared off Fodors years ago.

And how inappropriate and crass; to advertise a pet cemetery to someone looking for information on how to find the grave of a relative!

Inappropriate and crass do not even TOUCH his obnoxiousness.