USA - USA

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP (PENNSYLVANIA)

Battle of the Bulge Memorial
Mémorial de la Bataille des Ardennes
Memoriaal van de Slag om de Ardennen

 

 

 


Location - Localisation - Ligging: Intersection of Fisher Avenue and Clement Avenue.

GPS coordinates - Coordonnées GPS - GPS-coördinaten: +40°25'55.1", -76°34'12.3"

Inscription - Inscriptions - Opschriften

"[Logo "VETERANS OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE - ARDENNES"]

THE WORLD WAR II FEDERATION PROUDLY DEDICATES THIS
MONUMENT TO THE SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND AMERICAN MEN
AND WOMEN WHO, IN WORLD WAR II FOUGHT THREE GERMAN
ARMIES IN THE ARDENNES FOREST OF BELGIUM AND
LUXEMBOURG AND WON THE LARGEST LAND BATTLE EVER
FOUGHT BY THE U.S. ARMY. IN THE SNOW AND SLEET OF THE
BITTER WINTER OF 1944-1945 THEY TURNED AN APPARENT
DEFEAT INTO WHAT THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WINSTON
CHURCHILL CALLED "AN EVER FAMOUS AMERICAN VICTORY"

THE VETERANS OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE

A TRIUMPH OF COURAGE
JANUARY 29, 1999

DECEMBER 16, 1944 - JANUARY 25, 1945
"

Inauguration - Inauguration - Inhuldiging : 29 January / janvier / januari 1999.

Ce monument ne comporte pas de noms de victimes de guerre - Er staan geen namen van oorlogsslachtoffers op dit monument
 



















Photos - Foto's : Sources - Bronnen [139], [185]