Valor and Sacrifice: World War 2 film displayed at Netherlands American Cemetery

Shown in the visitor center at Netherlands American Cemetery, this 15-minute film gives powerful insight into the true cost of war in Europe during World War II, through both historic and modern-day imagery as well as recollections from letters by service members and family members.

Valor and Sacrifice, touches on the intensity and hardship of the fighting in some of the most crucial battles of World War II: Operation Market-Garden, the Hürtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge.

The film highlights the sacrifices of those service members who fought and died in the vicinity of Netherlands American Cemetery, near the city of Maastricht.

Learn more about the visitor center: ABMC's newest visitor center opens at Netherlands American Cemetery | American Battle Monuments Commission

"Valor and Sacrifice" was produced by ABMC and Northern Light Productions, thanks to the contribution of the South Netherlands Philharmonic @Philzuid and the Liberation Concert Organization.

Music © "Visitor Centre Hymn Parts 1 & 2", written by Mark Putz, commissioned and performed by the South Netherlands Philharmonic.