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B-17 'Channel Express III' (42-40050) Memorial

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Details:

By the side of the dirt road, in the field adjoining it.


Monument
A chained off monument in a gravel plot. Two stone slabs serve as steps to get to a weathered vertical stone marker with a plaque at its base.

Monument Text:

Engraved on the monument:

 

EN MEMOIRE

DES

AVIATEURS

AMERICAINS

TOMBES ICI

LE 19 JUIN

1944

 

English translation:

 

In memory

of the

American

Aviators

that crashed here

on 19 June

1944

 

 

Inscribed on the plaque:

 

2nd Lt Dominic Ceresa      2nd Lt William T. Nealon

T-Sgt Robert L. Mahler      T-Sgt Harold L. Eames

T-Sgt James P. Faulkner   S-Sgt Paul A. White

 

S-Sgt Alfred E. Wieters

Commemorates:

People:

Dominic Ceresa

Harold Leslie Eames

James Peter Faulkner

Robert Luther Mahler

William Thomas Nealon

Paul Alvan White

Alfred Edwin Wieters

Units:

401st Bomber Group

8th Air Force

United States Air Force

Wars:

WWII

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