Monument Details

Peace Garden Information & 5th Infantry Division Casualty boards

Details:

Information board located just to the left of the monument stone in the Peace Garden. Marker

White two sided information board. One side shows the tactical situation around Hoscheid in 1945, and the other side list the 38 US solders that were killed in the fighting around Hoscheid and the civilians that lost their lives during the war.

Monument Text:

First side:

Houschent 1945

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HOUSCHENT 1945

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HAAPTSTROOS 1945

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HOUSCHTER - DICKT 1945

Second side:

Fir d�nen 38 G'is hirer ze gedenke, hu mir fir Sie 38 Routeechen

geplanzt a w�llen Hir Affer heimat an Erennerung halen.

English translation:�For the 38 GI's honored here, we have installed 38 road signs to keep them in our memory.

Left column:

Ballard	William	23.01.1945
Botelho	Antoine	22.01.1945
Clancy	James	23.01.1945
Clarke	Louis	23.01.1945
Corcoran	John	23.01.1945
Curdy	Robert	23.01.1945
Daley	Nickolas	23.01.1945
Eaton	Woodron	23.01.1945
Elliott	Glenn	23.01.1945
Fountain	Walter	23.01.1945
Gaesser	Raymond	22.01.1945
Hall	James	23.01.1945
Heilmann	Daniel	23.01.1945
Herbert	Arthur	25.01.1945
Hildebrand	Albert	27.01.1945
Jeffries	Robert	23.01.1945
Jones	James	22.01.1945
King	Estle	22.01.1945
Mc Dermott	Edward	23.01.1945

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(-soldier�s helmet here-)

Right column:

Melillo	Dominik	22.01.1945
Menkin	Abraham	24.01.1945
Mertz	Albert	24.01.1945
Mitchell	Clyde	25.01.1945
Morel	Edward	26.01.1945
Piekielniak	Jos	25.01.1945
Postma	John	27.01.1945
Potts	Leonhard	23.01.1945
Prior	Keith	22.01.1945
Ring	Roy	23.01.1945
Rusnak	John	24.01.1945
Rutkowski	Frank	24.01.1945
Salsman	Ben	24.01.1945
Schaefer	Elwood	22.01.1945
Scharp	James	23.01.1945
Sullivan	Therman	23.01.1945
Switzer	Estill	25.01.1945
Tarant	Eschol	22.01.1945
Wilson	Cecil	25.01.1945