121st Engineer Plaque
Details:
Located across the street and slightly uphill from the national guard monument on the stone retaining wall. Plaque This bronze plaque commemorates the 9th Squad, 3rd Platoon, C Company, 121st Engineer Battalion, 29th Infantry division that masterfully destroyed a tank wall that was blocking a way off the beach.
Monument Text:
Emplacement du mur anticnar
Bloquant de la Sortie de
Vierville-sur-Mer
Ce mur a et detruit le 6-6-44 vers 17H00
par le Genie D'Assaut
de la 29-Div-USNG
121 Bataillon - Compagnie C - 3 - Peloton
9 Escouade
English Translation
The location of a tank wall
that blocked the exit to
Vierville-sur-Mer
This was destroyed on 6-6-44 at 1700 hours
by the genius of assault
of the 29th Div - USNG
121st Battalion - C Company - 3rd Platoon
9th Squad
Commemorates:
Units:
121st Engineer Combat Battalion
29th Infantry Division
United States Army
Wars:
WWII
Battles:
Normandy Invasion
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