B-17 'Channel Express III' (42-40050) Memorial
Details:
By the side of the dirt road, in the field adjoining it.
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:
Units:
401st Bomber Group
8th Air Force
United States Air Force
Wars:
WWII
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