In a clearing near the walking trail.

A metal sign attached to a metal sign pole.

The memorial marks the location where the Navigator 2LT Jesse Orrison landed in his parachute after bailing out of the B-17  (42-30359) 'Rikki Tikki Tavi' of the 339th Bomber Squadron, 96th Bomber Group, that was on a mission to Bremen when it was shot down over the town of Syke, Germany.  Eight of the crew were killed in action, while the Tail Gunner, S/SGT Eugene Moran miraculously survived riding in the planes tail which fell 4 miles to the earth; he landed nearby and survived.  Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 1392.

The crew of B-17 included:

Pilot: 2LT Linwood Langley, KIA

Co-pilot: LT Berline Cipresso, KIA

Bombardier: 2LT Don Curtis, KIA

Navigator: 2LT Jesse Orrison, POW

Flight engineer/top turret gunner: T/SGT Walt Reed, KIA

Radio Operator: T/SGT Sam Amatulli, KIA

Ball turret gunner: S/SGT Wilbert Provost, KIA

Waist gunner: S/SGT Anderson King, KIA

Waist gunner: S/SGT Edmund Swedo, KIA

Tail Gunner: S/SGT Eugene Moran, POW, Stalag Luft 6

The 2022 book, "Tailspin" by John Armbruster, tells the story of B-17 'Riki Tikki Tavi' and the incredible survival of S/SGT Eugene Moran  in the tail section of the aircraft and subsequent survival in Stalag Luft 6; 'Hell-Ship' transport in the Baltic Sea, and the 'Black March' 600 mile forced march.

 The memorial was dedicated on the 75th Anniversary of the event.

Sources: American Air Museum in Britain; Find aGrave

The text of the plaque is written in German and English.  The English reads:

November 29,1943:
360 bombers of the US Air Force fly an air raid on Bremen. In the early afternoon after heavy bombardment by German anti-aircraft guns and fighters the *Ricki Tikki Tavi" - a four-engined Boeing B-17, called flying fortress explodes at about 9000 meters above Syke. The falling burning shatter parts fell on the entire northeastern town of Syke. The Center of the crash lies on this point right here. Eight American soldiers did not survive the accident: Pilot Linwood D. Langley, co-driver Berline Cipresso, flight engineer Walter F. Reed, radio operator Samuel S. Amatulli and the gunners Donald K. Curtis, Wilbert A. Provost, Anderson M. King and Edmund E. Swedo. Only a few steps away from this place, the parachute of the navigator Jessie E. Orrison fell into a tree. Gunman Gene Moran sitting in the broken tail section of the US bomber crashed in free fall from a height of nine kilometers in the peace wood, about a kilometer from here. Both men survived seriously injured.
In remembrance of the dead and survivors, as a symbol of the futility of armed conflict, as a commitment to a peaceful planet  that's what this table stands for.