Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial

In 1943, the University of Cambridge In May 2014, a new visitor centre opened, containing exhibits about some of the people buried or commemorated at the cemetery, and the wider World War II campaigns in which they were involved. ==Notable burials and memorials==

• John Martin Howard (1917–1942), US Navy officer – (memorial – buried at sea) • John Joseph Seerley Jr. (1897–1943), pilot in both World War One and World War Two • Vincent F. Harrington (1903–1943), US Representative and US Army Air Forces officer • Glenn Miller (1904–1944), jazz bandleader and trombonist (memorial – lost at sea) • Damon Jesse Gause (1915–1944), fighter pilot • Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915–1944), eldest son of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald (memorial – lost at sea) • Leon Vance (1916–1944), US Army Air Forces pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (memorial – lost at sea) • Three of the crew of USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress Mi Amigo, which crashed in Sheffield, killing all 10 crew (seven later repatriated to the US) • American volunteer derrickman Herman Douthit. While working Rig No. 148, Douthit was killed when he fell from a drilling mast. He was buried with full military honors and remains the only civilian burial at the cemetery ==The memorial (including chapel)==

The memorial building is long, wide, and high; it is made of Portland stone; the doors of teak are embellished with relief models of World War II military equipment. The memorial comprises a large museum room and a small chapel. A great map on the wall shows schematically the air sorties flown from East Anglia, together with convoys across the North Atlantic and other actions in the war. The wall and roof have a mosaic of angels and ghostly aircraft. The south wall is inset with stained glass windows displaying the seals of the States of the Union arranged in ceremonial order. The chapel was designed and built between 1952 and 1954 by the Boston-based architects Perry, Shaw, Hepburn, Kehoe and Dean. Hughes and Bicknell of Cambridge were the executant architects. ==Design==

The architects of the site plan were Perry, Shaw, Hepburn and Dean; the landscape architecture was arranged by the Olmsted Brothers company. ==Chapel gallery==

File:Madingley_American_Cemetery_chapel.jpg|Chapel interior File:Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial - the Great Map.JPG|Showing the air sorties from East Anglia File:Cambridge American Cemetery 2012-11-25 04.jpg|Design on the ceiling of the chapel File:Cambridge American Cemetery 2012-11-25 01.jpg|Altar in the chapel ==References==