Grave markings for non-Christian soldiers in WWII graveyards?

[Argent_Towers]

I was just watching Saving Private Ryan and there is the opening scene set in the graveyard with the rows and rows of simple white crosses marking the fallen soldiers’ graves. Of course, there were Jews in the army too back then - did the Jews get a special white Star of David grave marking, or were they just given the generic cross as well? I assume there have to have been at least a few American Muslims killed in World War II - if these men were buried in those war cemetaries with the white crosses, did they get a crescent marker? Did Orthodox Christians get the cross with the diagonal line going through it?

[Johnny_L.A]

@Argent Towers

did the Jews get a special white Star of David grave marking…?

http://osiris.blog.lemonde.fr/files/2007/05/american-cemetery-011.1178086971.jpg

The photo is on this page on the Normandy American Cemetery.

[Fear_Itself]

@Johnny L.A.

http://osiris.blog.lemonde.fr/files/2007/05/american-cemetery-011.1178086971.jpg.

I thought that marked Lisa Simpson’s grave. :smack:

[bibliophage]

By coincidence I was recently wondering about the grave markers of Muslim servicemen who died overseas in WWII. Here’s what I found

Headstones of those of the Jewish faith are tapered marble shafts surmounted by a Star of David. Stylized marble Latin crosses mark all others.
http://www.abmc.gov/commission/history.php

[Sunspace]

Commonwealth graveyards have simple nearly-rectangular headstones with the soldier’s symbol, if any, carved into the store.

Each cemetery is made up of rows of white gravestones; unlike French or German graves, these are rectangles with rounded tops, not shaped like crosses. Each stone is marked with a cross, except for those where the deceased was known to belong to another religion, in which case another symbol is engraved. If the deceased was of no religion, no religious emblem is engraved on the headstone. The graves are marked with the name, rank and unit symbol of the deceased.

[Moirai]

It looks like at Normandy, there are four types of markers that I can find- the standard white cross, the blank white cross (unknown burial), the Star of David, and the white cross with gold lettering and a gold star (Medal of Honor recipient). You can see them here .