Inside the cemetery.

A three-sided rectangular stele of black granite set on a stone base commemorating the crew of B-17G #44-6440 and the German civilians who lost their lives when the aircraft crashed in the town on March 22, 1945. The monument bears inscriptions in both German and English, listing the names, ranks, and hometowns of the fallen airmen, along with the names and ages of the civilian victims.

In front of the monument text:

DIE TOTEN MAHNEN ZUM FRIEDEN 

DIESES DENKMAL IST DEM ANDENKEN

DER MENSCHEN GEWIDMET

DIE BEIM ABSTURZ EINES US BOMBERS

IN GROSSRÄSCHEN UMS LEBEN KAMEN

AM 22. MÄRZ 1945 WURDE DER B-17 BOMBER

DER 2. BOMBERGRUPPE DES PILOTEN

WILLIAMS BEI EINEM LUFTANGRIFF

AUF DIE BRABAG-RUHLAND

VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN ME-262 JÄGER

ABGESCHOSSEN

DIE B-17 ZERSTÖRTE DAS BAHNARBEITERHAUS

IN DER SCHMOGROER STR. 22

UND 9 VON 10 U.S. SOLDATEN

SOWIE 13 DEUTSCHE BÜRGER

WURDEN GETÖTET

THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED

TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE

KILLED IN THE CRASH OF A U.S. MILITARY

PLANE IN GROSSRÄSCHEN

ON 22.MARCH 1945 A B-17 BOMBER

OF THE 2nd BG

FLOWN BY THE WILLIAMS CREW FROM

FOGGIA ITALY WAS SHOT DOWN

BY A GERMAN ME-262 FIGHTER

DURING A BOMBING RAID ON THE

BRABAG OIL REFINERY AT RUHLAND

THE B-17 DESTROYED THE RAILWORKERS

HOME AT 22 SCHMOGROER STR.

KILLING 9 OF 10 U.S. AIRMEN

AND 13 GERMAN CITIZENS

THE DEAD PLEAD FOR PEACE

JOHN H. BRYNER

On the right side of the monument text:

DIESE U.S. SOLDATEN

KAMEN AM 22.3.1945

UMS LEBEN

THESE U.S. AIRMEN

LOST THEIR

LIVES IN THE CRASH

OF THEIR PLANE

ON 22. MARCH 1945

AT SCHMOGROER STR.

F/O ERNEST WILLIAMS

P ALTUS OK 

F/O MILAS MASSEY

CP MEMPHIS TN 

F/O JOHN BLACK

NAV MC DONALD OH

S/SGT MAURICE TILBY

B EUREKA UT

T/SGT CLARENCE WEIBERT

EG GILL CO

S/SGT WILLIAMS SKEFFINGTON

BTG SPOKANE WA

S/SGT JOHN SHUEY

RWG RAVENNA OH

S/SGT CONRAD SCHRYER

LWG MILWAUKEE WI

T/SGT HENRY LAWSON

ROG MEMPHIS TN