Monument Details

B-24 'King Size' (42-50612) Crash Marker

Details:

On the west side of the road. Marker

A rough field stone which holds a plaque with French and English text along with photos of the nine crewmembers, unit insignias, and the US and Belgian flags. The monument commemorates the downing of the B-24 "KING SIZE" (565th Bomber Squadron, 389th Bomb Group) on Christmas day in 1944. It was dedicated on 29 December 2018.

Monument Text:

B-24 42-50612 "KING SIZE"

(-Photos and names of the crew here-)

Le 25 décembre 1944, le “King Size”

s’est écrasé dans les champs autour de La Fosse. Six membres de l’équipage furent tués, un mourut à cause de ses blessures a Bitburg (Allemagne),

et deux ont survécu.

Qu’ils reposent en paix.

On December 25th 1944, the “ King Size”

crashed in the meadows of La Fosse.

Six crewmembers were KIA, one died

of his wounds in Bitburg (Germany) and

two escaped and returned home.