On the south side of the road.

Monument

A two-meter-high boulder on which a memorial plaque is mounted commemorating the crash and the three GIs killed: “2Lt Dennis H. Griggs, SSgt Robert W. Boynton, Pvt Thearon O. Ivy" are listed as the victims of the Nazi regime, as well as 2Lt Donald H. Vincent", who died in a parachute accident while jumping. 

On the morning of the 13th June 1944 at 06:03 hrs B-24H #42-52709 “Gawgia Peach” was one of 38 B-24s that took off from Venosa in Italy to bomb the ordnance depot at Milbertshofen north of Munich, Germany. The Gawgia Peach was the last aircraft in the high box of the second wave and was in formation during the bomb run and when the formation started the homebound leg of the mission. The Gawgia Peach was last seen near Anzing in Germany but straggling behind the formation and being attacked by German fighters. There were no witnesses to observe when the aircraft left the formation and it was only when the rest of the aircraft landed back at Venosa that the Gawgia Peach was discovered to be missing.

Gawgia Peach crash-landed near Sillertshausen. Almost all members of the ten-man crew managed to rescue themselves via parachute but three of them were murdered by the Nazis. SSgt Boynton was murdered on the ground by Nazi officials, as was 2Lt Griggs who was killed by enraged German villagers after parachuting down to safety. It is believed that Pvt Ivy was killed several days later by the same group of Nazis.

Source of information: aircrewremembered.com, www.tracesofevil.com

Source of photos: aircrewremembered.com

Translation:

After the crash of a US bomber on 13th June 1944 near this place,

the following members of the crew were killed by NSDAP officials:

Second Lieutenant DENNIS H. GRIGGS from Texas

Staff Sergeant ROBERT W. BOYNTON from Illinois

Private THEARON O. IVY from Texas

Killed in a parachute jump:

Second Lieutenant DONALD H. VINCENT from Massachusetts

Erected in their memory in June 2012