In Hamm we are face to face with the graves of American soldiers who perished in the Battle of the Bulge, in 1944-45, at the end of the Second World War, against the German Wehrmacht (Army). George S. Patton, the commander-in-chief of the IIIrd US Army Corps, found his last resting place here, as he had wished expressly. The white crosses of the 5,076 graves form an arch in front of a memorial chapel.
Major David W. Ray USArmy, my great uncle, a chaplain, survived the Battle of the Bulge. RIP