On a small roadside garden.

An inscribed concrete pillar like memorial with a metal dove attached to the front.

The memorial remembers the crew of the  B-24 'Maiden America' (42-78356) of the 723rd Bomber Squadron, 484th Bomber Group, 15th Air Force that crashed here on Christmas Day, 1944. 

'Maiden America' was part of a mission to Innsbruck, Austria on Christmas Day 1944. It was hit by flak over the target and attempted to land at several airfields in Switzerland.  Due to fog, the plane was unable to land and the pilot flew the plane away from the town of Wurenlingen and the crew attempted to bail out.  Three were killed and the surviving crew became internees in Switzerland until the end of the war. Missing Aircraft (MACR) Report: 10896.

The crew included:

The three killed in action were temporarily buried in the Swiss cemetery at Munsingen.  See Site Munsingen Cemetery, 61 Americans Burial Site Switzerland Plaque for more information.

The memorial was dedicated in 1965.

Special thanks for the B-17 Museum in Utzenstrorf, Switzerland for information about this memorial and for information concerning Americans interned in Switzerland during the war. 

 For more on the B-17 Museum Utzenstorf and the US Service members interned in Switzerland, see the museum website at https://www.b17museum.ch

Source of information at the crash site and photos: https://www.450thbg.com

The inscrition is in German on each side.  The English Traslation:

"They gave their live to save our village"

Bomber crash site Christmas Day 1944 at 12:30 hours.

The memorial also inlcudes the names of the crew who were killed in action: