B-26 (42-107574) 'Sweety Baby' Crash Memorial - 344th Bomber Group
Details:
On the northern side of the Tocqueville road. The B-26 crew's plaque is on the left (Western) side of the memorial.
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:
344th Bomber Group
496th Bomber Squadron, 344th Bomb Group
9th Air Force
United States Air Force
Wars:
WWII

