The Friday File: The cemetery with the largest number of American military dead in Europe is the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, with 14,246 total burials. Most lost their lives during WWI. The largest cemetery in the Pacific is the Manila American Cemetery with 17,206 graves; most buried there died in WWII. There are 22 other American cemeteries outside the US and 147 stateside. They all fell for our freedom.