B-24 Liberator 'Heavy Date' (42-40747) Monument
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Details:
On the NE side of the D344 in the town.
A chained-off stone obelisk commemorating French war dead with a white plaque with black inscriptions on the bottom commemorating US personnel that died in the area.
Monument Text:
Middle column:
EN HOMMAGE AUX VICTIMES DE LA GUERRE 1939-1945
TOMBES SUR LE SOL DE VRIGNY
_____________
BALSAM[sic] IRVING
CARRARO WILLIAM
MATTSON CARL
NEILSON DAVID
KREUGER FRANCIS
50ème ANNIVERSAIRE
A LA MEMOIRE DES AVIATEURS ALLIES
TOMBES A VRIGNY.
English translation:
In praise of the victims of the 1939-1945 war
who died on Vrigny soil.
___________
(-names-)
50th Anniversary
In memory of the American aviators
who died over Vrigny.
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
567th Bomber Squadron, 389th Bomb Group, Heavy
8th Air Force
United States Air Force
Wars:
WWII
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