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B-26 'Patsy' (42-95946) Memorial Plaque

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Details:

On the outside wall of a building next to the town's war memorial on the south side of the D56.

Plaque
A white plaque with red lettering commemorating US aviators that crashed in the area during WWII.

Monument Text:

"A la memoire de l'equipage du

B26 Americain du 444 Bomb Sq 320 GP

qui s'est ecrasait dans les bois de Plottes

le 13 Novembre 1944

C'est dans ce local transforme en chapelle

ardent que furent deposes les corps des

 

Capitaine FIELDS

Sergeant HECKO

Lieutenant HISEY

Sergeant MYERS

Lieutenant DAWKI

Sergeant MONTARULI

Lieutenant VIEBROCK

Caporal PECK

Caporal YOHANNAN

 

Morts loin de leurs pays parce qu'ils etaient

venus aider a la liberation du notre"

 

 

English translation:

 

In memory of the crew of the B-26 from 444th BS 320th BG that crashed in the Plottes woods on November 13th 1944

Here, in this building transformed into a chapel, that were laid out the bodies of

 

Cpt Fields

Lt Hisey

Lt Dawki

Lt Viebrock

Sgt Hecko

Sgt Myers

Sgt Montaruli

Cpl Peck

Cpl Yohannan

 

KIA far from their country to liberate ours

Commemorates:

People:

Earl G. Dawkins

Jack B. Fields

Joseph Arthur “Lefty” Hecko

Richard Warren Hisey

Marco R. Montaruli

Marvin Myers

Charles J. Peck

Theodore C. Viebrock

Frank Yohannan

Units:

12th Air Force

320th Bomber Group (Medium)

444th Bomber Squadron, 320th Bomb Group

United States Air Force

Wars:

WWII

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