Keywords: outdoor monochrome Lot 6591-8: Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, located about 6 miles northwest of Chateau-Theirry, and is the burial place of some 2,200 American soldiers, most of whom lost their lives in the vicinity of Belleau Wood and Chateau-Thierry in the Marne salient during operations of June and early July which resulted in the stopping of German advance toward Paris. Shown: Chapel-Belleau Cemetery. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection-Photograph Album presented by General John J. Pershing, USA (Ret.), Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission. The photographs in the collection were taken in 1923 to show the memorials erected by the American Battle Monuments Commission. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (2015/10/09). Lot 6591-8: Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, located about 6 miles northwest of Chateau-Theirry, and is the burial place of some 2,200 American soldiers, most of whom lost their lives in the vicinity of Belleau Wood and Chateau-Thierry in the Marne salient during operations of June and early July which resulted in the stopping of German advance toward Paris. Shown: Chapel-Belleau Cemetery. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection-Photograph Album presented by General John J. Pershing, USA (Ret.), Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission. The photographs in the collection were taken in 1923 to show the memorials erected by the American Battle Monuments Commission. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (2015/10/09). |