Huelgoat Liberation Marker - 6th Armored Division
Details:
Next to the town war memorial.
Marker
A headstone-style stele bearing a rectangular bronze plaque that is written in French and English listing the names of the American soldiers who were killed during the liberation of the town. In 1944, Huelgoat was liberated on 5 and 6 August 1944 by American troops 6th Armored Division, helped by about twenty local resistance fighters. The fighting resulted in the death of American soldiers, a resistance fighter, and a dozen German soldiers. In addition, four Nazis shot dead twelve Huelgoatains.
Source of information: www.letelegramme.fr
Source of photos: www.en.kilroytrip.fr, www. londontraveller.org, www.an-uhelgoad.franceserv.com
Monument Text:
« En souvenir de ceux qui donnérent leur vie lors de la
libération de HUELGOAT le 5 août 1944 »
« In memory of those who gave their lives in the liberation
of HUELGOAT on 5 august 1944 »
T/4 Charles BAIR
PVT Ewel B. BENNETT
T/5 Fred K. BLAYLOCK
2LT James L. DURDEN
T/5 Santo de NUNZIATO
2LT John W. SCHNEPP
SGT Fred H. SEIDENBURG
1LT Herbert WIEDER
(The bottom part is illegible)
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
15th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division
69th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division
6th Armored Division
8th Infantry Division
French Resistance
Resistance
United States Army
Wars:
WWII
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