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updated: Jan 22, 2003
BLOSVILLE
When the first elements of the 225th arrived in the area, they were greeted by the sight of a dead paratrooper caught up in an apple tree. Crashed gliders were strewn everywhere and hundreds of parachutes hanging from hedges, trees and houses. While Blosville is not explicitly marked on the map, the village was only three miles south of Ste. Mere Eglise. The Blosville Cemetery was one of six American cemeteries established in a radius of about 20 miles. This was due in part to the overall lack of ground communication between the attacking elements. Graves registration services were plentiful. At the outset, the Blosville Cemetery was intended to be temporary and primarily serve the 82nd Airborne Division. By the time the St. Lo breakout took place and Allied forces moved east into central France, this cemetery contained over 6,000 Allied graves