Monument Details

Three Missing Soldiers (MIA) Recovered Memorial

Details:

On the north side of Mittelweg Road.

Marker

A stone with metal lettering marking the spot where two Americans and one German soldier's remains where found in 1976.

Monument Text:

32 JAHRE LANG VERMISST

AM 12 MAI 1976 WURDE

HIER IHR GEMEINSAMES

GRAB ENTDECKT

FRANCIS DEMPELE (USA)

RICHARD QUICK (USA)

EIN UNBEKANNTER

DEUTSCHER SOLDAT

English Translation:

Missing for 32 years

On May 12, 1976

Discovered here

in one shared grave

Francis Dempele (USA)

Richard Quick (USA)

and one unknown

German soldier

Commemorates:

People:

Units:

103rd Engineer Combat Battalion, 28th Infantry Division

28th Infantry Division

311th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division

79th Infantry Division

Wars:

WWII

Battles:

Battle of Hurtgen Forest

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