Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, Military cemetery in Seringes-et-Nesles, France.

The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial lies 1.5 miles east of Fère-en-Tardenois, Aisne. Its 36.5 acres hold Plots A to D with 6,013 graves, 597 unidentified, marked by white Carrara marble headstones, Stars of David for Jewish soldiers and Latin crosses for the rest. At the far end stands a semicircular Romanesque memorial of marble and granite, with a chapel on its right and a one-room museum on its left.

The 42nd Division opened a temporary cemetery here on 2 August 1918, during the fighting that followed the Second Battle of the Marne. Congress kept it as a permanent cemetery in 1921, and France provides the 36.5-acre site at no cost. Cram and Ferguson designed the memorial, with George Gibbs Jr. as landscape architect. Most of the 6,013 dead fell in the Second Battle of the Marne and the Oise-Aisne campaign.

Stars of David mark the graves of Jewish soldiers; all other headstones carry a Latin Cross. The ten double columns of the memorial bear the numbers of the divisions that fought here, and their sides are carved with gas masks and artillery shells. The chapel walls list 241 missing Americans.

The cemetery lies 1.5 miles east of Fère-en-Tardenois and about 70 miles northeast of Paris. The chapel, museum and grave plots stand on one side of the road, the parking area and service facilities on the other; a walkway with a circular grass island divides the plots. Plot E is secluded behind hedges and reached only through a door in the superintendent's office.

Plot E, hidden behind hedges and reachable only through a door in the superintendent's office, held 96 Americans executed for rape or murder after dishonorable discharge. Eddie Slovik, the only American soldier shot for desertion in World War II, lay there until 1987, when his remains were returned to the United States. Louis Till, father of Emmett Till, was executed there on 2 July 1945.