Visiting the Area

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Visiting the area – The places we recommend to anyone interested in WWI, the Americans in France and the 42nd Division

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WWI Museums

WWI Museums in the area
Belleau – Musée de la Mémoire de Belleau
Meaux – Musée de la Grande Guerre – Download the 2017 program

WWI Museums in Eastern France
Chemin des Dames – Dragon’s Cavern
Fleury devant Douaumont – Mémorial de Verdun
Reims – Musée du Fort de la Pompelle
Suippes – Interpretation Center
Verdun – The Citadel

Verdun – Trenches of Verdun

WWI Museums in France
Blérancourt – French-American Museum
Compiègne – Armistice Museum
Paris – Army Museum
Péronne – Museum of the Great War

WWI American Cemeteries

WWI American Cemeteries in the area:
Belleau – Aisne-Marne Cemetery
Seringes-et-Nesles – Oise-Aisne Cemetery

Above: In the church of Seringes-et-Nesles, you can see an inscription memorializing the American soldiers buried at the American cemetery next to a beautiful Pietà. The correlation between Mary carrying her dead son and the American soldier carrying his dead comrade cannot be missed, and yet James Butler was only made aware of this beautiful relief after completion of the Rainbow Division soldier. The key to the church can be found with the mayor who lives across the street from the church.

WWI American Cemeteries in France:
Meuse Argonne Cemetery
Somme Cemetery
Saint Mihiel Cemetery
Suresnes Cemetery

Download a PDF list of the Members of the 167th Alabama Infantry Regiment buried in ABMC Cemeteries.

Major WWI Memorials

Major American and French WWI Memorials in the area

Butte de Chalmont

Château-Thierry – The Protestant Memorial Temple

Dormans – Memorial to the Second Battle of the Marne

Chamery

Chamery – Quentin Roosevelt Fountain

Château-Thierry – Cote 204, Monument Américain

Marne La Coquette – Monument to the Escadrille Lafayette
Meaux – American Monument
Fismes – US 28TH Division Memorial Bridge is worth a detour

See also following websites:
American Battle Monuments Commission
American War Memorials Overseas

Major American and French WWI Memorials in Eastern France

Blanc Mont – American Monument
Navarin (Suippes) – Memorial to the battle of Champagne and an Ossuary for more than 10,000 soldiers who died during the battle. General Gouraud is also buried there. A sculpture above by Real del Sarte represents a group of three soldiers with the faces of General Gouraud, his brother who died at the Chemin des Dames and Quentin Roosevelt who died for France.  In the US, a maquette of this sculpture can be seen at the World War One Museum in Kansas City.
Montfaucon – American Monument
Montsec – American Monument
Varennes-en-Argonne – Pennsylvania Monument

See also following websites:
American Battle Monuments Commission
American War Memorials Overseas

In the footsteps of the 167th Alabama Infantry Regiment and the 42nd(Rainbow) Division

Stations of the 1st Battalion of the 167th Alabama Infantry Regiment

November 25th, 1917 – November 21, 1918