Lormeau Memorial (6th Armored Division)
Details:
On the south side of the intersection.
Monument
The memorial consists of several monuments and markers, commemorative plaques, as well as a large commemorative panel, and a memorial wall on which an information panel is mounted. The memorials are dedicated to the memory of the 75 American soldiers of the 6th Armored Division who fell during the fight for the liberation of Plabennec and Plouvien on August 8 and 9, 1944. You can also find here dedicated monuments for General Patton and Major General Robert Walker Grow. Included on this page will be the three steles on the site.
Source of images: Google Maps, bretagne-39-45.forums-actifs.com
Monument Text:
Center monument:
(the monument with a green plaque mounted)
TRIBUTE TO OUR LIBERATORS
8 Août 1944
HOMMAGE À NOS LIBÉRATEURS
Ici, sur site de Lormeau, le mardi 8 Août 1944,
des unites de la 6é D.B. - U.S.
arrêtées dans leur marche pour la prise de Brest,
vont subir un pilonnage d'artillerie allemande.
Les pertes américaines seront lourdes :
43 tués, une centaine de blessés,
30% des véhicules détruits...
PASSANT, SOUVIENS-TOI :
CERTAINS ONT FAIT LE SACRIFICE DE LEUR VIE POUR QUE
TU CONNAISSES UN MONDE LIBRE ET FRATERNEL.
English translation:
TRIBUTE TO OUR LIBERATORS
August 8th 1944
A TRIBUTE TO OUR LIBERATORS
Here, on the site of Lormeau, Tuesday, August 8, 1944,
units of the 6th D.B.(Armored Division) - U.S.
halted in their march to take Brest,
were subjected to German artillery shelling.
American losses were heavy:
43 killed, around a hundred wounded,
30% of vehicles were destroyed...
PASSER-BY, REMEMBER :
SOME PEOPLE SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES TO MAKE SURE
A FREE AND FRATERNAL WORLD.
Plaque below the center monument:
UN DEVOIR DE MÉMOIRE
MÉMORIAL RÉALISE EN AOÛT 2009
PAR L'ASSOCIATION DES ANCIENS
COMBATTANTS DE PLABENNEC
English translation:
A DUTY TO REMEMBER
MEMORIAL CREATED IN AUGUST 2009
BY THE PLABENNEC VETERANS
VETERANS' ASSOCIATION
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Left monument:
(the monument with a blue star below 3 red lightning)
Batteries Allemandes du groupe 805 de la FLAK
de la Défense de Brest.
44ème Bataillon d'infanterie mécanisée
174éme Bataillon d'artillerie
68éme Bataillon de chars
English translation:
German batteries of group 805 of the FLAK
of the Brest Defense.
44th Mechanized Infantry Battalion
174th Artillery Battalion
68th Tank Battalion
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Right monument:
(the monument with a blue star above yellow V)
1944
6 Juin: Débarquement des alliés en Normandie
31 Juillet : Percée d'Avranches
9 Août: Libération de Plabennec
18 Septembre: Reddition de Brest
English translation:
1944
June 6: Allied landings in Normandy
July 31: Breakthrough of Avranches
August 9: Liberation of Plabennec
September 18: Surrender of Brest
