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| Keywords: outdoor Lot 6591-16: Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, France. This cemetery, located three miles west of the walls of Paris, on the slope of Mont Valerien, contains the graves of some 1,500 American soldiers. While most of those who sleep here died in hospitals in the rear zones of France, many of them had been wounded in battle and died after being evacuated to hospitals. Shown: Suresnes Cemetery from Chapel steps. 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 6591-16: Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, France. This cemetery, located three miles west of the walls of Paris, on the slope of Mont Valerien, contains the graves of some 1,500 American soldiers. While most of those who sleep here died in hospitals in the rear zones of France, many of them had been wounded in battle and died after being evacuated to hospitals. Shown: Suresnes Cemetery from Chapel steps. 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). | ||||
