Warsaw Uprising Victims Wall -American Airmen
Details:
Outside the Museum, on museum grounds in Freedom Park.
Commemorative ObjectA 156 meter long marble inscribed wall listing all the thousands of victims and those killed in actions during the of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. The wall includes a section listing Allied Airmen who were killed supporting the Uprising which includes 12 Americans.
From the Rising Museum Facebook Page:
In the Warsaw Airbridge, also referred to as Warsaw Concerto, 112 Polish, 90 British, 43 South-African and 12 American airmen sacrificed their lives.
The Warsaw Rising lasted from 1 August to 2 October 1944. Up to 180,000 people are said to be killed. Additionally, 650,000 inhabitants of Warsaw were expelled from their homes, relocated or deported into the Unknown to the concentration camps or forced labour. A city of 900,000 inhabitants ceased to exist. The Soviet Red Army stood on the right river bank of the Vistula river and watched peacefully the spectacle of Warsaw in flames. The Soviets decided to intervene on 17 January 1945 when the capital of Poland was already a sea of ruins with no sign of life. Their plan worked well.
The list of the Allied airmen who perished at the time of the Warsaw Rising whose names are engraved in the Memorial Wall that stands in the Freedom Park in Warsaw and includes 12 Airmen. (See below for the list of the 12.
See this website for more on the aircraft invloved in thsi action:
Site: Lomianki -Kielpin Cemetery, B-17 43-38175 (I'll Be Seeing You) Memorial - Warsaw Uprising Support Memorial
Site: Nasielsk, Pilots Joseph Vigna and Robert Peters P-51 Crash Memorial, 355th FG (Warsaw Uprising Support)
Monument Text:
The names of he 12 American Allied airmen,denotd by a small Americsan flag, include:
1LT Francis E. Atkins
2nd LT Clyde Alison Arrants
S/SGT Walter P. Shimshock
T/SGT Frank P. De Cillis
S'SGT Paul F. Haney
1st LT Paul R. Hibbard
1st LT Joseph J. Vigna
F/O Ely Berenson
S/SGT George A. MacPhee
2nd LT Myron S. Merrill
1st LT Robert O. Peters
2nd LT Forrest D. Shaw
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
100th Bomber Group
355th Fighter Group
358th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group
389th Bomber Group (Heavy)
564th Bomber Squadron, 389th Bomber Group, Heavy
8th Air Force
Resistance
United States Air Force
Wars:
WWII
Battles:
Operation Frantic
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