Opposite the Lormeau memorials (across the street).

Marker
A wooden framed white metal board that contains information about what every memorial on the site is. The information board is written in French and English and contains various images. The top left corner image on this board is the picture of the whole memorial and is numbered accordingly. The number on the memorial corresponds to the board’s content and then tells the description about it.

INFORMATION - Mémorial de Lormeau - Lormeau Memorial

1 - Stèle principale inaugurée le 8 août 2009. Main stele inaugurated on August 8, 2009.

2 - Plaque nominative en l'honneur des 75 soldats américains tués au combat dans le secteur les 8 & 9 aoùt 1944 ; inaugurée le 31 juillet 2011. Namerlate in honor of the 75 US soldiers killed in action in the area on 8 & 9 August 1944: inaugurated on 31 july 2011.

3 - L'Etoile américaine attaquée par les éclairs des canons allemands.

4 - Le V victorieux sous l'Etoile américaine. The American star attacked by the flashes of German guns. The V victorious under the American star.

5 - 4 août 2012 : panneau sur le débarquement en Normandie et percée sur la Bretagne. 4 august 2012: panel on the landing in Normandy and breakthrough on Brittany.

6 - 4 août 2012 : combats des 8 et 9 août a Plouvien. 4 august 2012: battles on 8 & 9 august in Plouvien.

7 - 4 août 2012: combats du 8 août de Roudoulévry et de Lormeau. 4 august 2012: fights on 8 august at Roudoulevry and Lormeau.

8 - 4 août 2012: récit du pilonnage de Lormeau. 4 august 2012: narrative of the shelling of Lormeau.

9 - 3 août 2013: panneau de la « Paix ». 3 august 2013: Freedompanel.

10 - 5 août 2017 : plaque en l'honneur des Généraux Patton et Grow. 5 august 2017: panels in honor Generals Patton and Grow.

11- 2018: Photographies des morts pour notre Liberté. Photographs of the dead for our Freedom. 

Informations complémentaires à l'Office culturel : 02.98.30.78.95. Suggestions, remerciements et coordonnées dans la boîte aux lettres. Complementary information to the Cultural office: 02.98.30.78.95. Suggestions, thanks and contact information in the letter box.

7 - Camp at Lormeau

On monday the 7th of august, units of the sixth DB are bivouacked north of Brest, including the forty fourth bi, the 174' FABN and the 68' TKBN in Lormeau-Penhoat south of the commune, near Gouesnou.

Hurricane of fire and iron

On tuesday august 8 at 10.30 am, the Germans bombard the position until 2.00 pm.

Heavy loss

140 men are killed or injured and 30% of vehicles destroyed. With the Plouvien fighting the same day and the next day, there will be 75 killed.

Advanced towards Moguerou

On tuesday evening, the 174' ferry arrives on the site and bombed, the latter suffering little damage. On wednesday morning, they will move towards Moguerou or will be bombed again by the 266' division of German infantry in position to Saint-Séverin and Saint-Jean-Balanant.

Photo: "They died here for our freedom"

Roudoulevry

General Spang's General Staff left the main column of the 266' German infantry division to try to reach Brest.

Fight at the station

On tuesday, august 8, their convoy of about a dozen vehicles, after crossing the village, entered into combat with the Americans of the 212 artillery battalion and the maintenance battalion that were heading from Kersaint to Narret.

Heavy German casualties

36 killed, 4 German prisoners. 2 American killed including one officer. The Americans will kill four other Germans who had taken refuge under the Mendy road bridge.

Photo : Boundary of the path of freedom.

(-green plaque image-)

Here, on the site of Lormeau, on tuesday, august 8, 1944, units of the sixth DB U.S. arrested in their march for the taking of Brest, will undergo a shelling of German artillery. The American losses are heavy: 43 killed, a hundred wounded, 30% destroyed vehicles... 

9 - Rain of shells on Lormeau

according to the account of the soldier Bob Neff 

Photo : The German batteries having pillaged Lormeau on 8/8/1944.

Bivouac in Lormeau

Installed late in the afternoon, the men are tired, their staff ignores that they are near the Germans, Bob Neff digs a trench to take refuge for the night, he rises on august 8 in a time radiant.

Morning sunny

The day looks wonderful, he prepares his breakfast, an egg picked up on the way, a cup of coffee, when the bombing begins.

A half track catches fire

All the soldiers have to take shelter. Some gi's try to save vehicles. The wounded scream, calling for help. We can not forget that it concludes Bob Neff in the letter which he sent to his mother. 

The Germans watched

Lormeau's camp from the bell-tower, and the Americans had no suspicion of anything.

Terrible fire will last from 10.30 to 2.00 pm, with further shots until 8.00 pm.

30% of the vehicles will be destroyed or damaged, the maintenance section having succeeded in evacuating the repairable vehicles despite the incessant bombardments. Some day later, thanks to this, the division is operational again.

140 men can no longer fight

The sixth of the battalion, at about 8.00 pm, they leave Lormeau for Moguerou and Plouvien in order to join the rest of the sixth army which is fighting the Germans and preventing them from reaching Brest.

« La Municipalité et l'Association des Anciens Combattants de Plabennec vous remercient de votre visite. The Municipality and the Velerans' Association of Plabennec thank you for your visit »