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80th Infantry Division Bambiderstroff Liberation Monument

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Details:

In the center of a small roadside park next to a stream; about 75 meters south of the town church.

Monument

An upright three-sided monument about 8 feet high. The memorial lists the names of soldiers killed in action during the town's liberation.

The memorial remembers the liberation of the town of Bambiderstoff, France by the 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Division on November 25, 1944 during the Lorraine Campaign. The regiment was ordered on November 25, 1944 to seize the village of Bambiderstroff (Lorraine) and break the German's positions located on the Maginot Line forts near the village. 

Several of the soldiers listed on the memorial as buried in the nearby Lorraine American Cemetery in St. Avold, France.

Monument Text:

Front Side:

BAMBIDERSTOFF 

A SES LIBERATEURS

 

80TH INFANTRY DIVSION

318TH INFANTRY REGIMENT

NOVEMBER 25, 1944

 

SIDE:

Silhouette of a soldier wearing the 80th Infantry "Blue Ridge" Division patch

SIDE:

REMEMBERS:

2LT RICHARD E. ALSTON

PVT JOSEPH W. BAILEY

PVT HERBERT L. COUNTRYMAN

CPT LOURN C. DOAN

1LT CURTIS S. GALLATIN

TEC5 CHARLES E. GREAVES

PFC CLYDE E. HELTON

PVT ROY E. HIGHSMITH

2LT GERALD A. HOEPPNER

PVT FELIX C. HOOD

PVT HENRY C. HOOPER

PVT GEORGE J. JOVACS JR.

PFC MARVIN O LACKEY

PFC SAMUEL A. MCVEY

PFC ESTIL W. MEADOWS

CPL ROY W, MILLER (702nd TD Bn)

PVT NORMAN J. SIEGLE

SGT SYGNEY P. SOLFOFF

PVT CHARLIE R. TRENT

PVT VERNON O. WIELAND

PFC WILLIAM H. WISE

PFC FRANCIS L. ZERBEE

 

 

Commemorates:

Units:

318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division

3rd US Army

702nd Tank Battalion

80th Infantry Division

XII Corps

Wars:

WWII

Battles:

Lorraine Campaign

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