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Channel Express III Crash Site

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Details:

Starting from the monument of the same crash, a path 500m into the forest leads to a clearing at the crash site.

Marker
Two stone slabs set on the ground, originally planned for the monument, with a plaque commemorating the aviators.

Monument Text:

Le 19 juin 1944

des aviateurs Américains

sont morts ici

pour notre liberté.

La population d'AUSSAC-VADALLE

reconnaissante.

 

                                                      - 8 mai 2000

 

 

English translation:

 

19 June 1944

American aviators

died here for our liberty

The population of Aussac-Vadalle

is thankful

 

                                        - 8 May 2000

Commemorates:

People:

Dominic Ceresa

Harold Leslie Eames

James Peter Faulkner

Robert Luther Mahler

William Thomas Nealon

Paul Alvan White

Alfred Edwin Wieters

Units:

401st Bomber Group

8th Air Force

United States Air Force

Wars:

WWII

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