One member of this group is 19-year-old Jefferson Wiggings, a messenger from Alabama and First Sergeant of the 960th QMSC (Quartermaster Service Company). He is sent to help the 3136th QMSC which is already struggling with the enormous number of soldiers being brought for burial.

The military cemetery near Margraten and Cadier en Keer is marked by a 30-metre-high landmark shaped like a tower. It is the only American cemetery in the Netherlands and covers an area of more than 26 hectares of what used to be arable land. Most of the 8,301 servicemen buried here died during the liberation of the south-east of the Netherlands and the Battle of the Rhineland and the advance to the Ruhr region.

The website www.blackliberators.nl offers stories about the African American Liberators in The Netherlands. Including the impressive story of Jefferson Wiggings.