Monument Details

Flight Officer Carey Memorial

Details:

500 meters south of town, at the bottom of the valley, at a road intersection Monument

A rough basalt fieldstone with a bronze plaque honors the memory of Flight Officer Leo Carey (703rd Bomber Squadron, 445th Bomber Group), whose B-24 was shot down in the area.

Monument Text:

We remember Flight O Leo A. Carey

Pennsylvania

Killed near Hupperdange, April 13th, 1944

In the crash of B-24 Liberator bomber 41-29132

Buried at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Belgium

We dedicate this monument to the heroic

445th Bomb Group (H)

703rd Squadron

US Eighth Air Force

US Veterans Friends Luxembourg, Commune de Heinerscheid, Fleuristes et Passeurs, LRL

Commemorates:

People:

Leo A. Carey

Units:

445th Bomber Group (Heavy)

703rd Bomber Squadron, 445th Bomb Group (H)

8th Air Force

United States Army

Wars:

WWII

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