US Eighth Airforce 1942-45

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Reference WMO/262845

Address:

RAF Museum Hendon

Hendon

London

NW9 5LL

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Cenotaph
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A freestanding grey stone tablet in the shape of an inverted T on a rectangular stone base. The upper part of the tablet has an incised image of five aircraft and the unit badge surrounded by a border of laurel leaves all coloured black. The lower part of the tablet contains the incised inscription in decorative upright capital lettering coloured black.. Originally at the Liverpool International Garden Festival, At the Herculaneum Dock
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Inscription on Tablet: IN MEMORY OF THE 350,000 AMERICANS WHO/ SERVED IN GREAT BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945, AS MEMBERS/ OF THE EIGHTH AIR FORCE/ THEIR SACRIFICES - MORE THAN 26,000 DIED IN COMBAT - CONTRIBUTED IMMEASURABLY TO/ THE ALLIED VICTORY IN EUROPE - THEY SHALL NOT BE FORGOTTEN./ THE FOLLOWING MEDAL OF HONOUR RECIPIENTS TYPIFIED THAT SPECIAL COURAGE, DEVOTION/ TO DUTY AND CAN-DO SPIRIT DISPLAYED BY ALL MEMBERS OF THE MIGHTY EIGHT/ (Names)/ DEDICATED THIS 28TH DAY OF MAY, 1984, ON BEHALF OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF TODAY'S EIGHTH AIR FORCE. Text on Interpretation Board nearby: UNITED STATES 8th AIR FORCE MEMORIAL/ STONE/ This monument commemorates all those who lost their lives whilst serving with the 8th Air/ Force in the United Kingdom between 1942 and 1945./ The memorial was first erected in a garden dedicated to the memory of the fallen at the/ Liverpool International Garden Festival in May 1984 by the 8th Air Force Historical Society:/ redevelopment of the site has resulted in its re-location at Hendon/ The aircraft featured on the tablet are, from top to bottom, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress,/ Consolidated B24 Liberator, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, Lockheed P-36 Lightning and/ North American P-51 Mustang./ The memorial was produced and donated to the 8th AFHS by the Shreveport Monument/ Company

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