American Military Cemetery
War cemetery of white headstones and a long stone wall naming thousands of missing Second World War servicemen.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the American Military Cemetery on Madingley Road outside Cambridge starts with a count of headstones and a count of names that refuse to match. It follows Glenn Miller, the trombonist and bandleader behind Moonlight Serenade, through his wartime months leading the Army Air Forces band in England, up to a December afternoon at an airfield near Bedford. Best heard standing at the long stone wall beside the graves.
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