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Marauder 42-107574

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Details:

On the northern side of the Tocqueville road. The B-26 crew's plaque is on the left (Western) side of the memorial.

Plaque
A pillar with gold lettering commemorating the parachutists of a C-47 and bearing a stone cross set behind a small white chain surrounded by a half circle of stone wall bearing two black plaques commemorating the aircrews and parachutists that died there.

Monument Text:

9th USAAF

344th BG - 496th BS

EN SOUVENIR DES VICTIMES

DU B-26 MARAUDER 42-107574

qui s'ecrasa a la "croix des aulnays"

- le 10 Juin 1944 –

 

 

Lt Herman L. Burdette

SSgt Marshall H. Porter

Lt Dale W. Edwards

SSgt Joseph G. Gisavage

Lt Albert L. Collins

SSgt Sherrard II Billings

 

English translation:

 

9th USAAF

344th BG - 496th BS

IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS

OF THE B-26 MARAUDER 42-107574

that crashed at the "cross of the aulnays"

- on 10 Juin 1944 –

 

 

Lt Herman L. Burdette

SSgt Marshall H. Porter

Lt Dale W. Edwards

SSgt Joseph G. Gisavage

Lt Albert L. Collins

SSgt Sherrard II Billings

Commemorates:

People:

Sherrard, II Billings

Herman L. Burdette

Albert Luther Collins

Dale W. Edwards

Joseph George Gisavage

Marshall Henry Porter

Units:

496th Bomber Squadron, 344th Bomb Group

United States Air Force

Wars:

WWII