Behind a small parking area on the other side of the road from the church.

The monument is a large rectangular shaped stone with an inscribed brass plaque attached to the front.

The monument remembers the 17^th Airborne Division’s contribution to the Battle of the Bulge Allied counter-offensive, particularly the fight along “Dead-Man’s Ridge” about 10 miles northwest of Bastogne.  This was the unit’s baptism of fire.

The Division, the 194^th Glider Infantry Regiment; 513^th Parachute Infantry Regiment; with the 193^rd Glider Infantry Regiment and 507^th Parachute Infantry Regiment in reserve entered the Ardennes campaign, 4 to 9 January, at the Battle of Dead Man's Ridge. They captured several small Belgian towns and entered Flamierge on 7 January, but enemy counterattacks necessitated a withdrawal, but later retook the town pushing the enemy to the Ourthe River.

Staff Sergeant Isadora “Izzy” Jachman was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions during the attack on “Dead-Man’s Ridge” on January 4, 1945.

The monument was dedicated in December 2007. An annual march along “Dead Mans Ridge” remembers the fallen.

The text on the Monument reads as follows:

In proud remembrance of the men of the

17th AIRBORNE DIVISION

Who fight in this area during the

BATTLE OF THE BULGE in January 1945

They fought that we might be free.

En mémoire des hommes de la

17th airborne Division

qui ont combattu dans cette région durant

la BATAILLE DES ARDENNES en Janvier 1945

pour que nous puissions rester libres.