Just off the trail on a rockface.

An inscribed metal plaque attached to a rockface. The crash site is sometime refered to as the "Biberwier" crash site.

The memorial remembers the crew of B-24 (42-78308) of the 780th Bomber Squadron, 465th Bomber Group, 15th Air Force that was shot down here on August 3, 1944. Four of the crew were KIA, the rest were taken as POWs.   This B-24 was one of eight shot down that day over the skies of Tyrol, Austria. Thirty crewmen were KIA and the rest taken POW of the eight crews.

A memorial located in Erhwald, Austria remembers all of the KIA that day. See Site Erwald, Tyrol Air Battle (Aug 1944) Monument.

Other plane crash sites include:  Sites Brendlkar, Biberwier -Wamperter Schrofen & Lermoos also have memorials remembering crews.

Source: DERLA; 465th.org

Source of photos: https://gams.uni-graz.at/archive/objects/o:derla.tir11

IN MEMORIAM
Am 3: August 1944 wurden acht schwere Bomber der 15.
US-Luftwaffe, gestartet von der Airbase Pantanella, Süditalien, von Jägern der Deutschen Luftwaffe im Gebiet über dem Fernpaß abgeschossen. Einer dieser Bomber, ein
B-24 Liberator von der 465 Bombergruppe/780 Staffel zerschellte 100 m hinter dieser Tafel am Berghang.
Von den insgesamt 79 Besatzungsmitglieder dieser acht
US-Flugzeuge haben 30 junge Männer an diesem Tag ihr.
Leben verloren.
Grew of the Biberwier crash Serial Nr. 42-78308
Die Besatzung des hier abgestürzten Flugzeugs bestand aus:

Pilot:  1st Lt. Lloyd N. CLARKE
POW / gefangen genommen

Co-Pillot: 1st Lt. Patrick J. LOGAN
PoW, gerangen genommen

Navigator: 2nd Lt. Edward J. PALUCH
POW/ gerangen genommen

Bombardier 2nd Lt. Garber DE WITT**

Killed in Action/ gefallen

Engineer: S/Sgt. Thurlie D. COOKE
POW / gefangen genommen

Radio-Op.: T/Sgt William C. BURTON
POW / gerangen genommen

Gunner: S/Sgt. Claire J. ALLRED
POW / gefangen genommen

Gunner: S/Sgt. Hoyt O. GEOGHAGEN
Killed in Action / gefallen

Gunner: S/Sgt. Victor E. BULLOCK
Killed in Action / gefallen

Gunner: S/Sgt. AlbertA. PEARSON

Killed in Action / gefallen

IN COMMEMORATION
August 3 1944 eight B24 Liberator Heavy Bombers of the 15th USAAF, based at Pantanella in southern Italy, were shot down by fighters of the German Air Force over the area of the Fernpaß, one of which crashed 100. m to the south of this plaque. This B24 was from the 465 Bomber Group, 780
Bomber Squadron. From these eight aircraft, crewed by 79 airmen, 30 lost their lives on this day.

Note: ** Name is DeWitt Garber