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1st Lt Samuel C. Lee

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Details:

Behind the town's war memorial and in front of the church.

Monument
Two glassed-in plane parts flanking a small white obelisk with an inscription commemorating Lt Lee who crashed in the area during WWII.

Monument Text:

A la memoire

du Lt SAMUEL C. LEE

Pilote 9th USAAF

53rd FS 36th FG

MORT POUR NOTRE

LIBERTÉ

le 21 SEPT 1944

 

La

COMMUNE RECONNAISSANTE

 

 

English translation:

 

In memory

of Lt SAMUEL C. LEE

Pilot of the 9th USAAF

53rd Fighter Squadron, 36th Fighter Group

DIED FOR OUR

FREEDOM

on SEPT. 21, 1944

 

A

GRATEFUL COMMUNITY

Commemorates:

People:

Samuel Cornish Lee

Units:

53rd Fighter Squadron, 36th Fighter Group

8th Air Force

United States Air Force

Wars:

WWII

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