80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion Plaque
Details:
This plaque is located on the painted brick wall just to the left of the entrance to the December 1944 Museum. It is located above a similar plaque dedicated to a member of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Plaque This dark metal plaque features the insignia of the 82nd Airborne Division (to which the 80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion was attached) in the top left corner, Airborne Parachutist Wings in the top center, and two crossing canons with the number "80" above them in the top right corner. Between theses three symbols there is a sequence of six stars with an arrow in the middle. The English inscription on the plaque commemorates the sacrifice of the 80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion during the winter of 1944-1945.
Monument Text:
80th AIRBORNE
ANTIAIRCRAFT BATTALION
82nd ABN DIV. - U.S. ARMY
DEC. 19, 1944 - JAN. 25, 1945
THIS PLAQUE IS DEDICATED TO THE
MEMORY OF OUR COMRADES-IN-ARMS
WHO FOUGHT, SHED THEIR BLOOD
AND SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES DURING
THE BATTLE OF THE ARDENNES
THROUGH THEIR EFFORTS THE PEOPLE
OF BELGIUM WERE LIBERATED
AND THEIR FREEDOM ENSURED