Marigny was originally the site of a battlefield cemetery, established by the United States Army Graves Registration Service during the war, where American and German soldiers, sailors and airmen were buried in two adjacent fields.

The graveyard was created as five long blocks of graves with a banked outer boundary.

Ceramics plaques bear the name, rank, and dates of birth and death of two soldiers.

The majority of the fallen in the graveyard date from the American advance during Operation Cobra in the summer of 1944.

During the summer months school children visit the area to tend the graves.