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Stone of remembrance - Taken by Ann Hacke 01 Oct 2021
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Inscription - Taken by Ann Hacke 01 Oct 2021
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Plaque - Taken by Ann Hacke 01 Oct 2021
Reference WMO/294516
Address:
Noirmont Headland
Le Chemin de Noirmont
St Brelade
Jersey
JE3 8JA
Channel Islands
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- Second World War (1939-1945)
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Stone of Remembrance: This Memorial was unveiled/ on the 9th August 2004 and is dedicated to the men of/ PT SQUADRON 34/ United States Navy/ Who died in action off Noirmont Point headland/ on the morning of 9th August 1944/ (Names...) Plaque: Naval Battle off Noirmont Point/ 9th August 1944/ During the early morning hours of 9th August, 1944, a naval engagement took place just off/ Noirmont Point between PT Squadron 34 of the United States Navy operating from the newly/ liberated port of Cherbourg in Normandy, and a convoy of German vessels escorted by the/ heavily armed 46th Minesweeping Flotilla of the German Navy based in the German occupied/ Channel Islands. The convoy, sailing under cover of darkness, was carrying a battery of heavy/ field guns destined to reinforce the defences on the east coast of Jersey./ Battle was joined in thick fog as the convoy rounded La Corbiere, and continued along the/ south coast, culminating off Noirmont Point when the PT 509, having rammed an escorting/ minesweeper, the MT 4626, finally went down taking fourteen of her fifteen man crew with her./ A further two USN seamen from the PT 503 were also lost in the action. The German losses/ were three seamen from the 46th Minesweeping Flotilla and one soldier from Engineer/ Battalion 319. The convoy got through to St. Helier and the guns were emplaced on the east/ coast, from where they could fire on American forces deployed on the Cotentin peninsula. One/ of these guns is now on display in this emplacement./ Of the sixteen American seamen who lost their lives that morning, three were washed up on/ the island and buried with full military honours at Howard Davis Park in St. Helier, on 15th/ August 1944. A fourth body was picked up by an Allied seaplane in St. Ouen's Bay on 10th/ August. In 1946, their bodies were transferred to a US Cemetery in Normandy. Nine/ American bodies were never recovered, the sea off Noirmont Point becoming their final/ resting place. For the United States Navy PT Boat service, this was the greatest loss of life in/ any single engagement during World War Two./ The four German dead were buried in St. Brelade churchyard, but removed to the German/ military cemetery at Mont-des-Huisnes, near Mont-St-Michel, France in 1962. Their names and ranks are: (names...) The Memorial 9th August 1944-9th August 2004 The memorial is dedicated to the men of PT Squadron 34, United States Navy, who gave their/ lives during that engagement of 60 years ago. Around the main Memorial stone, are arranged/ sixteen smaller granite stones, each representing one USN serviceman who died in the action./ The Memorial is located on the site of the former Battery Lothringen Mess Hut, and faces out/ across the area of sea water where the action took place and the final resting place of the PT 509./
16 names - see image
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