Golden Gate National Cemetery

The National Cemeteries in the U.S.A. are used for war graves, graves of U.S. military personnel, veterans and their spouses but not exclusively so. There are also special state veteran cemeteries.

The Golden Gate National Cemetery contains the graves of 44 German and Italian prisoners of war from World War II. They were captured in North Africa. They died in the camps: Camp Beale and Camp Cook in California, and Camp Rupert in Idaho. The graves can be found in section E. There are also 3 Commonwealth war graves from the Second World War.

In 2008, there were in total 139,037 graves on this cemetery.

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is buried on this cemetery. There are also the graves of 44 German and Italian POW's from the Second World War.

The Golden Gate National Cemetery contains American war graves from different periods. The cemetery includes several graves of killed Medal of Honor recipients. There are also 27 victims of the Port Chicago disaster (17 July 1944) buried here.

Golden Gate National Cemetery contains the graves of the following people, who fought for the United States of America and who gave their lives in the War in Afghanistan and/or Operation Enduring Freedom:

24 November 2010 , Lance Corporal Arden Joseph Buenagua, aged 19
03 April 2011 , Lance Corporal Harry Lew, aged 21
05 July 2011 , Sergeant Nicanor "Nick" Amper IV, aged 36

Golden Gate National Cemetery contains the graves of the following people, who fought for the United States of America and who gave their lives in the War in Iraq and/or Operation Iraqi Freedom:

22 March 2004 , Lance Corporal Andrew Steven Dang, aged 20
6 April 2004 , Lance Corporal Kyle Dwayne Crowley, aged 18
6 April 2004 , Lance Corporal Travis James Layfield, aged 19
29 April 2004 , Sergeant Adam W. Estep, aged 23
2 June 2004 , Corporal Bumrok R. Lee, aged 21
24 September 2004 , Lance Corporal Aaron Robert Boyles, aged 24
10 November 2004 , Lance Corporal Erick James Hodges, aged 21
19 November 2005 , Sergeant Michael June Idanan, aged 21
3 May 2006 , Private 1st Class Benjamin Thomas Zieske, aged 20
29 June 2006 , Corporal Christopher David Rose, aged 21
25 July 2006 , Specialist Joseph Anthony Graves, aged 21
14 October 2006 , Private 1st Class Keith J. Moore, aged 28
31 January 2007 , Sergeant William Mason Sigua, aged 21
29 May 2007 , Specialist Doonewey White, aged 26
31 December 2008 , Private Benjamin Bryan Tollefson, aged 22
21 October 2011 , Private 1st Class Steven F. Shapiro, aged 29

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikimedia Commons (2)