USAAF - Bushy Park

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Reference WMO/201944

Address:

Bushy Park

Teddington

TW11 0DR

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: American Armed Forces Geographical Marker: Tablet dedicated to the United States Army Air Force who were stationed in Bushy Park during the Second World War. On top of a pentagonal stone memorial. Plaque commemorating the ending of the Berlin Airlift is fixed to this monument. Nearby is a plaque commemorating General Dwight D Eisenhower.
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THIS TABLET/ MARKS THE SPOT OF THE/ EUROPEAN HEADQUARTERS/ OF THE/ UNITED STATES/ ARMY AIR FORCE/ JULY 1942 - DECEMBER 1944/ AND IS DEDICATED BY THE/ ROYAL AIR FORCE/ TO THEIR COMRADES-IN-ARMS/ IT IS THROUGH FRATERNITY/ THAT LIBERTY IS SAVED/ VICTOR HUGO // THIS PLAQUE TO COMMEMORATE/ THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ENDING/ OF THE BERLIN AIRLIFT/ ON THE 12TH MAY 1949/ WAS UNVEILED BY/ HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES/ ON 14TH MAY 1999 // SHAEF/ON THIS SPOT STOOD THE OFFICE OF/GENERAL DWIGHT D EISENHOWER/SUPREME COMMANDER ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE//HERE FOR THE THREE VITAL MONTHS LEADING UP TO THE/D-DAY LANDINGS ON THE 6TH JUNE 1944 EISENHOWER AND HIS/STAFF PLANNED THE INVASION OF EUROPE//THE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE/MOVED TO BUSHY PARK FROM GROSVENOR SQUARE ON/SUNDAY 5TH MARCH 1944 EISENHOWER MOVED TO HIS/ADVANCE HEADQUARTERS AT SOUTHWICK HOUSE/PORTSMOUTH ON 2ND JUNE 1944

Registered Park and Garden

10000281 - monument unlisted but within Grade I listed Park and Garden

Bushy Park

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www.royalparks.org.uk