Marauder 42-107574
Details:
On the northern side of the Tocqueville road. The B-26 crew's plaque is on the left (Western) side of the memorial.
Plaque
A pillar with gold lettering commemorating the parachutists of a C-47
and bearing a stone cross set behind a small white chain surrounded by a
half circle of stone wall bearing two black plaques commemorating the aircrews and parachutists that died there.
Monument Text:
9th USAAF
344th BG - 496th BS
EN SOUVENIR DES VICTIMES
DU B-26 MARAUDER 42-107574
qui s'ecrasa a la "croix des aulnays"
- le 10 Juin 1944 –
Lt Herman L. Burdette |
SSgt Marshall H. Porter |
Lt Dale W. Edwards |
SSgt Joseph G. Gisavage |
Lt Albert L. Collins |
SSgt Sherrard II Billings |
English translation:
9th USAAF
344th BG - 496th BS
IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS
OF THE B-26 MARAUDER 42-107574
that crashed at the "cross of the aulnays"
- on 10 Juin 1944 –
Lt Herman L. Burdette |
SSgt Marshall H. Porter |
Lt Dale W. Edwards |
SSgt Joseph G. Gisavage |
Lt Albert L. Collins |
SSgt Sherrard II Billings |
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
496th Bomber Squadron, 344th Bomb Group
United States Air Force
Wars:
WWII