B-24 Liberator (42-100181) 'Star Valley' Crew Plaque
Details:
At the entrance of the gardens by the street; next to the town War Memorial and Monument to the same crew
The town's large stone monument for the dead. In the back left inside wall of its half-circle stone wall enclosure, there is a grey plaque with gold lettering commemorating American aviators. It is adjacent to similar plaques remembering the town's war dead and next to a monument to this same plane crew.
This memorial plaque remembers the crew of 10 Americans from the 68th Squadron, 44th Bomb Group, 2nd Bomber Division, of the 8th Air Force. On the morning of February 5, 1944, these 10 Americans were in their B-24 and were attacked by a German fighter plane. The Americans were assisting 102 other planes with an air raid mission to bomb the airfield of Parcay-Meslay in Tours. The B - 24 with the 10 Americans is hit and catches on fire above the town of Saint-Léonard-en-Beauce were it eventually lands between the hamlet of Sigogne and Monchaud farm. Of the ten men, only one survived (S/SGT Warren E. Klein who was captured).
Monument Text:
EDGERTON
Eugene HALL
Kennet GIFFIN
John SPINK
Harold BOHNISF
Carl A. OLHER
Bernard MORIN
Joseph LEVRICH
William EDE
Peter
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
44th Bomb Group
68th Bomber Squadron, 44th Bomb Group
8th Air Force
United States Air Force
Wars:
WWII
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