Temporary Norman cemetery site in final stages of erecting wooden crosses bearing name, rank and serial numbers of the fallen.  These crosses were replaced by permanent stone markers when all 9 Norman cemetery sites were consolidated at St. Laurent-sur-Mer 

was one of the nine temporary cemeteries in the Ste. Mere Eglise vicinity.  This site contained 5,000 graves.

reads "From June 1944 to 1948, here were the graves of 6000 American soldiers who died for the liberation of France"
(Courtesy Jack Daly)