The display is located in the town’s “Monument Square” across from the World Wars monument and 2 canons.

The memorial is a multi-media display honoring the 180^thInfantry Regiment, 45^thInfantry Division Medal of Honor awardee, Second Lieutenant Ernest Childers.  The display is part of a series of 15 historic displays located in the town describing different events and time periods in the town’s history – “ Il Borgo dei Racconti” (The town Recounts). This display is named: 1943: Allied Troops in Oliveto.  The display particularly  about the Native American, Ernest Childers and his actions to earn the Medal of Honor on a hill named “Heroes Hill” locally.  There is also a bar code reader that allows the visitor to watch a movie about the Childers and the town during Operation Avalanche. Childers fellow high school classmate, Jack Montgomery, a Cherokee Indian, also was awarded the Medal of Honor at Anzio.  (See this website, 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division for more on Montgomery).

The text on the display is in Italian and English with bar codes that allow the visitor to listen and watch events of September 1943.

The English text reads:

A platoon led by a Native American-

This was dubbed heroes hill

(under a picture of Heroes Hill)

A young native American 

wears the US Army Uniform

A German is saved by Olivetani.

Even in War there are solidarity and compassion