Monument Details

B-24 'Double Trouble' (41-29244) Crash Site Marker

Details:

A few meters to the east side of the forest road. Marker

A monument representing one tail stabilizer of the Liberator that crashed here in February of 1944. Inscription in Slovenian and English honor the ten man crew, five of whom were taken POW and five of whom perished in the crash. On this day 24 other Liberators were lost in Europe, most on their way to Regenburg Germany and back. The 451st Bomb group lost six B-24's on that day. The monument was put in place by Raul Semenič and Renata Gutnik on 15th October, 2014.

Monument Text:

In a memory of the American Bomber B-24H-5-CF Liberator - Double Trouble 41-29244 crew crashed in Logatic on February 25, 1944. 49th Bomb Wing, 451st Bomb Group (H) 725th Bomb Squadron

KIA

pilot Edwin H. Pries

lower turret gunner Steve Varga

right waist gunner Joseph J. McCord

left waist gunner Salvatore P. Scafidi

tail gunner Thaddeus S. Tokarski

POW

copilot Frank R. Gerrity

navigator James W. Cottrell

bombadier George A. Evens

upper turret gunner Harold Koslow

nose gunner Don T Abernathy