340th Bomb Group
Details:
By the side of the D71, sometimes hidden by cars, in a gap in the trees.
Monument An upright white rectangular stone slab with a white plaque set on a smaller white stone slab. The plaque commemorates the 23 KIA of the 340th Bomb Group.
Monument Text:
EN SOUVENIR DES 23 PILOTES AMERICAINS DU 340 Th BG
QUI ENTRE LES 16 ET 19 MARS 1945
NE RENTRERENT PAS DE MISSION.
QUELQUES JOURS SEULEMENT
AVANT LEUR DEPART DE L'AERODROME
DU CERVIONE OU ETAIT EGALEMENT
INSTALLE L'HOPITAL AMERICAIN
LA MUNICIPALITE DE CERVIONE
LE 19 MARS 2005
english translation:
In memory of the 23 American pilots of the 340th Bomb Group who did not return from their missions between the 16th and 19th of March 1945, only a few days before their departure from the airfield located next to the American hospital.
