On the roadside next other the walking path.

An upright stone inscribed monument.

The monument remembers members of the aircrew of the B-24 ((42-51967) 'Strange Cargo' of the 826th Bomber Squadron, 484th Bromber Group that we exectuted after the plane ws shot down.

This crew on their 15th mission against the enemy, flying from Torrette Airfiled in South Italy,  was hit by anti-aircraft fire during a bombing raid over Graz, Austria. After having parachuted safely to the ground, four crew mates would be paraded before crowds of civilians and then shot to death. They were victims of Fliegerlynchjustiz "lynch justice for fliers" a campaign ordered by the Nazi high command that historians are only now bringing to light. They were buried in Central Cemetery, Braz, Austria, later to be reinterred some to their homes in America of US Overseas Military cemeteries; the Missing in Action are remembered on the Tablets of the Missing at the Florence American Memorial and Cemtery in Italy.

The crew included:

LT James Crockett -Pilot, POW
2nd/Lt. MacDonell Moore -Co Pilot, POW
2nd/Lt. Henry B. Bottoms -MIA/KIA
2nd/Lt. Oscar R. Ness -KIA
S/Sgt. Kenneth E. Haver -KIA
Sgt. Harold D. Brocious -Gunner, POW/Executed
Sgt. Steven Cudrak -Radio/operator, Executed
Sgt. Charles R. Westbrook - Executed
Sgt Levi L. Morrow Executed
Sgt. Carl F. Ober -MIA/KIA

Sources:

Find a Grave

DERLA

DAACDA Downed Allied Air Crew Database Austria, Vienna 2025 (https://daacda.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/a-00876.html)

The text on the plaque is in gernan and english.  The English reads:

AT THIS PLACE 

ON 4 MARCH 1945 THREE**

DEFENSELESS AMERICAN

PILOTS BECAME VICTIMS

OF COWARDLY

NAZI-FASCIST

MURDERERS

** Note:  sources indicated 4 crewmembers were executed.