Monument Details

South Cove Church War Memorial Cross -B24 (42-51241)

Details:

In the churchyard, on the approach to the church.

Monument

A celtic cross on a trapezoidal block base. It commemorates the South Cove men in World War I and II as well the American airmen who lost their lives in the parish in March 1945. The American who lost their lives were the airmen or the crew of the B24J 42-51241. The aircraft was apparently caught in propwash, and was thrown over on its back on the way back from mission 920. The crew did not have time to escape the aircraft before it started to break up, and it crashed close to St Lawrence's church, South Cove with all crew lost.

Monument Text:

On west face of base:

AND THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR

LIVES FOR US IN THE

SECOND WORLD WAR

1939 - 1945

(-Names-)

ALSO IN MEMORY OF

THE AMERICAN AIRMEN WHO

LOST THEIR LIVES IN THIS PARISH

MARCH 1945

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