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B-17 (42-30711) 'Fertile Turtle Myrtle' Crash Memorial

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Details:

On the west side of the road, inset into the forest about ten meters.

Monument
A stone pillar with a decorated base bearing an inscription commemorating the crash of a B-17 in the area during WWII.

Monument Text:

Genech reconnaissante
A la memoire des 8 aviateurs tombes le 29-1-1944
USA

English translation:

From a grateful community to the 8 US aviators that fell here on January 29th 1944.

Commemorates:

People:

Robert Louis Baughn

Raymond Tillman DeVerse

Earl Enil Goewert

James Franklin Holdren

Ewald, Jr. Huebscher

Jesse T., Jr. Irving

Ronald F. Preston

Norman Wolff

Units:

407th Bomber Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group

8th Air Force

United States Air Force

Wars:

WWII

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