Completed the following sentence: During and shortly after the war over 16,000 American casualties were buried across the Saint Avold region in France. <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk>
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine as the Americans sought to expel the Germans from the fortress city of Metz and advance on the Siegfried Line during the latter stages of World War II. They were mainly part of the U.S. Third and Seventh Armies.