Just outside a small group of local mountain huts. Just outside a small group of local mountain huts.

Monument
A large boulder with an inscribed plaque attached to the front. The memorial remembers B-17 (42-97580) known locally as the “Liberty Bell” of the 353rd Bomber Squadron, 301st Bomber Group, 15th Air Force flying out of the Lucera Airfield in Italy on a mission to bomb the Aerodrome in Wollersdorf, Austria.

Enroute to the bombing location, the B-17 was hit by flak over Slovenia. Reports indicate Co-Pilot Otto Hinds was able to bring the diving plane under control so the aircrew could bail out. Hinds however had a chute failure upon jumping and was severely injured upon landing. He later died in a Partisan Filed hospital.

Three of the crew to include Hinds were killed; two were captured and the rest were rescued and returned to duty with the help of local Slovenian partisans.

A nearby memorial remembers the Partisan Field Hospital and a grave marker, now a cenotaph, for 2LT Hinds. (See Site: Stahovica -WW2 Partisan Hospital Museum)
Reference: Missing Aircraft Report (MACR) 5444.

The crew of the B-17 included:
2LT Francis DiDomizio - Pilot, POW (Stalag 3 and Stalag IV-A)
2LT Otto Hines-Co - Pilot, Died of wounds
2LT Jerome Cohen - Navigator, Rescued
2LT Charles Wensley - Bombardier, Rescued
SSGT George Bertuzzi - Radioman, POW (Stalag 3 and Stalag IV-A)
SGT Richard Adam - Lower Turret, Killed in Action
SGT Lester Peterson - Waist Gunner, Killed in Action
SGT William Lessera - Engr/Gunner, Rescued
CPL Harold Swenson - Tail Gunner, Rescued
SSGT Jimmie G. O'Leary - Photographer, Rescued

The text on the plaque is written in Slovenian and reads:

V. spomin

Na ponesrecene

sestreljenega zavezniskega

letala b-17 ki je tu

strmoglavi lo 29.5.1944

leta

odbor zzb nov

kamnik

The translation is:

To the memory

of the victims

downed allied

b-17 plane that 

crashed here on 5/29/1944

Association of War Veterans Kamnik Area