The Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer is the final resting place of over 9,000 fallen soldiers, many of whom gave the ultimate sacrifice in the D-Day landings and the days that followed. The cemetery overlooks Omaha beach, and, according to the American Battle Monuments Commission, it sits, "on the site of the temporary American Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 as the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II." Today, a cohort of almost 5