Any WWII sites. memorials. cemetery in Tuscany related to US soldiers?

Yes there is a beautiful American Cemetary and Memorial in Tuscany. Around 7 miles south of Florence. We were sad to learn from the Cemetary director when we visited that they do not get many visitors. They reach out to tours, school groups who are visiting Italy too. He shared recent stories of soldiers remains that are still being discovered.

do you have a location?

The Florence American Cemetery and Memorial is just south of Florence and is well worth a visit. You can get information about it at www.abmc.gov.

thank you both for the info, much appreciated

Go to the American Battle Monuments Commission, www.ambc.gov/cemeteries. All cemeteries as well as monuments are listed plus you can research over 218,000 names of those interred in Europe, if you are looking for anyone that your dad might remember that was killed in action in Italy. There is even a lesser known American Cemetery in Paris, Suresnes American Cemetery, that is largely forgotten and overlooked by most Americans in Paris.

Much of the Italian campaign was carried out by British, Canadian and Polish troops, though there certainly was an American presence. That whole complicated battleground was somewhat shoved aside after the Normandy invasion.
To the west, along the French coast, I was surprised to stumble into an American cemetery close to the Riviera, knowing nothing about the French Mediterranean landings mirroring Normandy. US boots tromped ashore on a number of famous Riviera beaches, including Cannes, where Brigitte Bardot would drop her top in a vastly different offensive 20 years later. The campaign up the Rhone Valley to Lyon was complicated, but for your interest, the cemetery I found is in Draguinan. https://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials/europe/rhone-american-cemetery#.WaCblCiGM2w

Jim in Va

We also went to the American Cemetery 7 miles outside of Firenze, on our last trip there. Think of Arlington with magnificent rolling hills and the umbrella pines. There are several large displays showing different stages of the battles. The curator also told us how little visited the site it, what a shame, our tax dollars at work! Anyone killed/died north of Rome was allowed to be buried there. The entire area (Chianti region) was breathtaking. We got lost, even with our GPS as we no one was looking at the phones, only the beautiful vistas. We drove there from Cortona heading to Vinci (another fabulous place to stop and see the fantastic DaVinci museum.

thank you marie ..I will certainly visit it

George, i did not know there was an American Cemetery in Paris. I will look that up. Thank you.

Jim, do go to the Florence American Cemetery. I was privileged to visit it on the Rick Steves Village Italy tour a few years ago. It was one of the surprises the guides try to work in.

We visited the Florence American Cemetery this past March. It is a serene and hallowed site, and is beautifully maintained. We spent a while speaking with the Director (American), his assistant (American), and a Cemetery Associate (Italian). They were all very welcoming and answered our questions. I would agree that the Cemetery is under visited, and that many of the Americans who stop by there have ties to a soldier who is buried there or died fighting the Axis in the campaign north of Rome. We visited because my late father-in-law fought in Italy with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team/100th Infantry Battalion. He was not KIA, but there are 11 members of the 442nd RCT and 2 members of the 100th IB buried there. This is from the Overview on the website: "The Florence American Cemetery and Memorial site in Italy covers 70 acres. The wooded hills that frame its western perimeter rise several hundred feet. Between the two entrance buildings, a bridge leads to the burial area where the headstones of 4,401 of our military dead are arrayed in symmetrical curved rows upon the hillside. They represent 39 percent of the U.S. Fifth Army burials originally made between Rome and the Alps. Most died in the fighting that occurred after the capture of Rome in June 1944. Included among them are casualties of the heavy fighting in the Apennines Mountains shortly before the war's end. On May 2, 1945 the enemy troops in northern Italy surrendered. Above the graves, on the topmost of three broad terraces, stands the memorial marked by a tall pylon surmounted by a large sculptured figure. The memorial has two open atria, or courts, joined by the Tablets of the Missing upon which are inscribed 1,409 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. The atrium at the south end of the Tablets of the Missing serves as a forecourt to the chapel, which is decorated with marble and mosaic. The north atrium contains the marble operations maps recording the achievements of the American armed forces in this region." If anyone wants to read more about the Italian Campaign and the breaking of the Gothic Line, I recommend an excellent book entitled The War North of Rome.

Excellent description Robert, thank you. I will be sure to visit it.

Just a word of caution if you plan to use the bus to get there...do your homework ahead of time! We visited by bus from Florence and didn't do our research (mistake #1). We were seated behind the driver so we really couldn't see the approaching stops (mistake #2). As we were rounding a curve, we saw our stop - too late! So we had the driver stop at the next bus stop, about a mile away! We planned to hop on the bus in the opposite direction, which we did. The road is narrow and there is really nowhere to walk. There is no bus stop at the cemetery in the opposite direction! Fortunately, the driver stopped in the middle of the road to let us off. We waked across the street and wandered around the grounds. We chatted with the staff and really enjoyed the bright, sunny November day. Then we tried to get back to Florence. Remember how I mentioned there was no bus stop across the street? Well, the man in charge informed us that the closest bus stop was 3 km away! He volunteered to drive us there and drop us off. We were lucky! This was in 2012, so things may have changed but just make sure you know how you are going to get there and back!