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Greater Love Exercise Tiger Plaque

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Details:

Inside a locked room of the bunker north of the museum.  The room has a locked gate that you can look through to see the plaques Plaque


Two large bronze plaques, one on the left side and one on the right, honoring the support servicemembers killed either during training for or during the invasion of Utah Beach.  Many lost their lives during Exercise Tiger in the UK on 30 April 1944.

Monument Text:

Greater Love Hath No Man Than to Lay Down His Life for His Friends

John XV-13.
The names and units of the fallen are listed.

Commemorates:

People:

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Ovid C. Adcock

Alvin Eldred Aid

Edgar B., Sr. Akin

Marvin Ralph Alexander

Walter W. Alexander

Delmar R. Allen

John J. Allen

Albert F. Alsip

Edward Anderson

Sam S. Arcuri

Joe M. Arismendiz

Joel T. Armstrong

Marion J. Asberry

Eugene F. Bahr

Raymond Baldwin

Calvin C. Banister

Ralph Eugene Barber

Chester Barrett

Francesco Barrone

Edwin Alois Basgall

William R. Battle

James R. Baugus

Carl Milton Bean

William U. Begel

John E. Bensenhaver

Walter C. Bergfeld

John Bernardo

Nilo V. Bertini

Howard Gray Bird

Louis L., Jr. Birkley

Martial J. Bisaillon

James Blair

Floyd Edward Blake

Thomas J. Blethroad

Harley E. Blevins

Frederick W. Blind

William Blond

Jacob A. Bohl

Louis A. Bolton

Bernard E. Bonderer

Harvey J. Borchers

Winford Gene “Jake” Bost

Hoy Fern Boyles

Portter James Bratton

Calvin D. Brecheisen

Wayne R. Brewer

Robert Lee Briggs

Edward Lee “Brownie” Brown

George E. Brown

Ivan J. Brown

Units:

1605th ENGR MAP DEP PLT

1st Engineer Special Brigade

24th Amphibious Truck Battalion

261st Medical Battalion

286th Signal Company

2nd US Naval Beach Battalion, United States Naval Reserve

306th Quartermaster Battalion

3206th Quartermaster Service Company

3207th Quartermaster Service Company

33rd Chemical Decontamination Company

3516th Ordnance Medium Automated Maintenance Company

3878th Quartermaster Gasoline Supply Company

38th Engineer General Service Regiment

4090th Quartermaster Service Company

4144th Quartermaster Service Company

432nd Quartermaster Service Company

462nd Amphibious Truck Company

478th Amphibious Truck Company

501st Medical Collecting Company

518th Port Battalion

519th Port Battalion

531st Engineer Shore Regiment

556th Quartermaster Railhead Company, 306th Quartermaster Battalion

557th Quartermaster Railhead Company, 306th Quartermaster Battalion

605th Ordnance Armament Maintenance Battalion

607th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company

625th Ordnance Ammunition Company

815th Amphibious Truck Company

816th Amphibious Truck Company

818th Amphibious Truck Company

United States Army

United States Navy

Wars:

WWII

Battles:

Normandy Invasion