82nd Airborne Monument Sicily
Details:
On the E45 and SS115 10km northeast of Vittoria, Sicily Monument A large stone tablet that praises and remembers the sacrifice of the 82nd Airborne in the fighting that took place near the area. It also list all the names of those who died from the 82nd Airborne in the aforementioned fighting.
Monument Text:
THIS SITE
THE NIGHT OF JULY 10, 1943 WAS WITNESS
TO BLOODY COMBAT BETWEEN
THE 82nd AMERICAN AIRBORNE DIV. AND
ITALIAN AND GERMAN TROOPS EXTREME
WERE THE LOSES SUPREME WAS THE
HEROISM AND FROM THE SACRIFICE OF
THESE MEN IS CREATED THE NEW HISTORY
OF EUROPE
KILLED IN ACTION AT PONTE DIRILLO
Lt. Col. | ARTHUR F. GORHAM | PFC. | HARRY C. DOWNEY |
1st Lt. | KURT B. KLEE | Pvt. | JOHN J. McGUIGAN |
1st Lt. | JOHN D. SPRINKLE | • • | DAVID J. McKEOWN |
Navy Ensign | G.A. HULTON | • • | WILLIAM J. KERRIGAN |
Sgt. | GERALD L. LUDLAM | • • | VERNON F. KNIGHT |
• • | TRAFFORD WILLIAMS | • • | PHILLIP V. PALMER |
• • | JOHN F. YEAGER | • • | STEPHEN W. VIDUMSKY |
Cpl. | Cpl HOWARD S. OWENS | • • | RAYMOND E. FISKE |
• • | CHARLES F. CYMERYS | • • | JAMES T. BRADFORD |
• • | CORNELIUS J. MOYNIHAM Jr. | • • | ELDRIDGE V. HARBIN |
• • | WARREN LYONS | • • | JAMES D. HARRIS |
PFC. | PFC THOMAS D. ADAMS | • • | DOMINIC T. ANGELO |
• • | THOMAS PLAKA | • • | ALFRED GLASCOCK |
• • | GEORGE H. GOUSMAN | • • | CARROLL MEILE |
• • | ALOYSIUS BONCYK | • • | JAMES D. LONG |
• • | ARTHUR H. HOUSER | • • | WALTER M. BARNETT |
• • | HAROLD MYRHOW | • • | WALTER F. KISSEL |
• • | NOEL M. WHEALTON | • • | JOE BOOTHE |
• • | LELAND LAYE | • • | WILLIAM BLAKE |
• • | MICHAEL A. SCAMBELLURI |
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Commemorates:
People:
Units:
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne
7th Army
82nd Airborne Division
Wars:
WWII
Battles:
Operation Husky