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Soldiers • May 2009 3737 Graves area and tower at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial at Margraten. More than 8,000 Allied Soldiers were laid to rest there, representing 43 percent of those originally buried in this and other temporary cemeteries in the region. Most of them gave their lives in the airborne and ground operations to liberate eastern Holland, during he advances into Germany over the Roer and across the Rhine and in air operations over the regions. (Photo courtesy of the American Battle Monuments Commission)