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B-24 'Hell's Angel' Crash Marker

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Details:

On the south side of the road, in the grove of trees, surrounded by a fence. Placed at the west side beside a cross and another stone marker. Marker


A granite stone marker in the shape of the tail of an airplane. It memorializes six fallen American aviators and one civilian victim in the area.

Monument Text:

LOTNICY AMERYKAŃSCY

POLEGLI W ZYGODOWICACH

13.1X.1944 R.

 

KPT. WILIAM C. LAWRENCE

POR. MATTHEW W. HALL

SIERŻ. EVERETT L. MAC DONALD

SIERŻ. WILLIAM T. EGGERS

SIERŻ. ARTHUR E. NITSCHE

SIERŻ. LEWIS L. KAPLAN

 

CYWILNA OFIARA KATASTROFY:

MARIA Z OPALIŃSKICH-CICHOŃ

 

NIECH PAMIĘĆ O NICH TRW A

TUTAJ ZAWSZE

 

English Translation:

 

AMERICAN AVIATORS

KILLED IN ZYGODOWICE

13 September 1944

 

CPT. WILIAM C. LAWRENCE

LT. MATTHEW W. HALL

SGT. EVERETT L. MAC DONALD

SGT. WILLIAM T. EGGERS

SGT. ARTHUR E. NITSCHE

SGT. LEWIS L. KAPLAN

 

CIVIL DISASTER VICTIM:

MARIA Z OPALIŃSKIE-CICHOŃ

 

REMEMBER THEM

HERE ALWAYS

Commemorates:

People:

William T. Eggers

Matthew Warren Hall

Lewis L. Kaplan

William C .“Bill” Lawrence

Everett L. MacDonald

Arthur E., Jr. Nitsche

Units:

15th Air Force

831st Bomber Squadron, 485th Bomber Group (Heavy)

United States Air Force

Wars:

WWII

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