Spitfire 'Lease Fleece' Crash Memorial
Details:
Located up the street from the church in Creancey, on the road to Tour Saint Ettienne. A large boulder in a grove of trees.
A plaque set into a stone at the site of the Spitfire crash in September 1944.
Monument Text:
A LA MEMOIRE
DU LIEUTENANT PAUL ALBERT BALOGH
DE L' U.S. ARMY , TOMBE AUX COMMANDES DE
SON SPITFIRE LE 19 SEPTEMBRE, 1944
LA COMMUNE DE CREANCEY RECONNAISSANTE
LE 18 SEPTEMBRE, 1999.
English translation:
IN MEMORY LIEUTENANT PAUL ALBERT BALOGH
KILLED AT THE CONTROLS OF
HIS SPITFIRE ON SEPT. 9, 1944
THE GRATEFUL MUNICIPALITY OF CREANCEY
SEPTEMBER 18, 1999.
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
14th Photographic Squadron, 14th Reconnaissance Group
United States Air Force
Wars:
WWII
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