Barsham B24 American Airmen

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Reference WMO/264441

Address:

Outside Barsham Village Hall

Bungay Road B1062

Barsham

NR34 8HA

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: US Armed Forces: Black marble plaque mounted on red brick wall. Lettering incised and painted white. Aircraft bomb group badge top left-hand corner, aircraft tail identification code top right-hand corner and crossed Union Jack and American flag top centre. Outline of B-24 at foot of plaque.
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TO THE MEMORY OF / THE SEVEN AMERICAN AIRMEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES ON THE EVENING OF / 22nd APRIL 1944 WHEN THEIR B24 AIRCRAFT OF THE 467TH B.G. (H) CRASHED / CLOSE TO THIS LOCATION DUE TO ENEMY NIGHT INTRUDER ATTACK WHILE / RETURNING FROM A COMBAT MISSION TO HAMM, GERMANY / (Names) / THREE AIRMEN SURVIVED THE CRASH / (2 Names) / (1 Name) WHO RETURNED TO BARSHAM 24TH APRIL 1999 / FOR THE DEDICATION OF THIS MEMORIAL //

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