3rd US Army Monument Bar-le-Duc
Details:
On the center of a small garden plot beside the pedestrian walkway. The monument is approximately 950m from the town hall. Monument A stone base with several sculptures affixed to it. On the face side is the Lorraine Cross with an American soldier riding in a jeep on front of it and the liberation message next to it. On the top of the block is a sculpture of the torch from the Statue of Liberty. The monument commemorates the 3rd US Army for liberating the town of Bar-Le-Duc from the German forces on August 31, 1944.
Monument Text:
EN RECONNAISSANCE
A LA 3EME ARMEE
AMERICAINE
QUIR PAR CETTE VOIE
LIBERA
BAR-LE-DUC
LE 31 AOUT 1944
A 18 H.
IN GRATITUDE
TO THE
THIRD U.S. ARMY
WHO BY THIS ROAD
LIBERATED
BAR-LE-DUC
31ST AUGUST 1944
AT 6 P.M.
