On the eastern roadside of the D57.

Monument
A glass-encased engine with the crashed Thunderbolt tail sticking into the ground behind it with a white information panel next to it in three different languages.

On the info sign:

A MARVELOUS STORY!

ON JULY 27TH 1944, AN AMERICAN FIGHTER PLANE CRASHED IN FLAMES IN A FIELD BELONGING TO THE LAURENT FAMILY IN THE HAMLET OF THE SCELLERIE...

THE BATTLE WAS RAGING AND THE INHABITANTS OF LE MESNILBUS HAD SEVERAL DAYS PAST RECEIVED THE ORDER TO EVACUATE.

RETURNING FROM THE EXODUS, THEY FOUND THE WRECKAGE OF THE WAR STREWN ACROSS THE COUNTRYSIDE, BUT THEY HAD TO PICK UP THEIR LIVES, TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE AS BEST THEY COULD...THEY HAD MANY WORRIES!

A HALF CENTURY HAS QUICKLY PASSED...AND NOW MICHAEL RAINFROY, IMPASSIONED BY THE HISTORY OF LOST AIRCRAFT, HAS BROUGHT BACK FROM OBLIVION AND THE EARTH THE AMERICAN AIRCRAFT...A THUNDERBOLT P-47.

THANKS TO THE RECORDS OF THE AMERICAN ARMY, THEY FOUND THAT IT WAS A PLANE FROM THE 404TH FIGHTER GROUP.

THEN THEY DISCOVERED THE NAME OF THE PILOT AND WITH THE HELP OF THE "POOP SHEET" OF FORMER AMERICAN PILOTS, THEY FOUND OUR PILOT ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN COLORADO! THAT WAS ROBERT LEE DUFFY WHO HAD SUCCESSFULLY PARACHUTED NEAR THE VILLAGE OF CAMBERNON.

THIS MEMORIAL, ERECTED IN HIS HONOR, WILL KEEP ALIVE THE MEMORIES OF THE SACRIFICES OF ALL THE FIGHTERS AND OF THIS PAGE OF LOCAL HISTORY.

UNE HISTOIRE MERVEILLEUSE!

LE 27 JUILLET 1944, UN AVION EN FEU S/ENFONÇAIT DANS UN PRÉ DE LA FAMILLE LAURENT AU HAMEUA DE LA SCELLERIE... LA BATAILLE FAISANT RAGE ET LES GENS DU MESNILBUS AVAIENT REÇU L'ORDRE D'ÉVACUER LE VILLAGE DEPUIS QUELQUES JOURS.
RENTRANT D'EXODE, LES EPAVES DE LA GUERRE JONCHAIENT NOTRE RÉGION... MAIS IL FALLAIT VIVRE... REPARER LES DEGATS - ILS AVAIENT D'AUTRES SOUCIS!
UN DEMI - SIÉCLE A VITE PASSÉ... ET VIOLÀ QUE MICHEL RAINFROY, PASSIONÉ DE L'HISTOIRE DES AVIONS PERDUS, VA FAIRE RESSORTIR DE L'OUBLI ET DE LA TERRE L'AVION AMÉRICAIN... C'ESTUN THUNDERBOLT P 47!
GRÂCE AUX ARCHIVES DE L'ARMEE AMÉRICAINE, IL SAIT QUE C'EST UN AVION DU 404 eme FIGHTER GROUP...
PUIS IL DECOUVRE LE NOM DU PILOTE, PUIS AVEC L'APPEL DU POOP SHEET DES ANCIENS PILOTES AMÉRICAINS, IL RETROUVE NOTRE PILOTE BIEN VIVANT AU COLORADO : C'EST ROBERT LEE DUFFY, QUI AVAIT RÉUSSI
À SAUTER EN PARACHUTE SUR CAMBERNON!
CE MEMORIAL ELEVÉ EN SON HONNEUR, GARDERA LE SOUVENIR DES SACRIFICES DE TOUS LES ANCIENS COMBATTANTS... ET DE CETTE PAGE D'HOISTOIRE LOCALE.