Monument Details

CPT Everett King Memorial

Details:

On the lawn in front of the town hall, on the right of the town's war memorial (as you are facing the building).

Cenotaph
A white marble headstone-shaped monument with gold leaf engraving in French. The insignia of the 9th Air Force is engraved at the top.

The cenotaph remembers Captain Everett G. King of the 411th Fighter Squadron, 373rd Fighter Group. King was killed in aerial combat (P-47 42-28431) above the town in August 1944. King also had a twin brother, Edwin V. King, who was a pilot in WW2; both graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1942.

Monument Text:

A la memoire

du Capitaine

Everett G. King

aviateur Americain

tombe pour la

liberation du territoire

le 15 aout 1944.

English translation:

In memory

of Captain

Everett G. King

American aviator

fallen for the

liberation of the territory

on August 15, 1944.

Commemorates:

People:

Everett Glenn King

Units:

373rd Fighter Group

411th Fighter Squadron, 373rd Fighter Group

9th Air Force

United States Air Force

Wars:

WWII

Other images :

View