Localisation - Ligging: El Presidio Plaza, 160
West Alameda Street.
Coordonnées GPS - GPS-coördinaten: +32°13.36',
-110°58.425'
Inscriptions - Opschriften
Face avant - Voorkant
"[Logo "VETERANS OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE - ARDENNES"]
WORLD WAR II
DECEMBER 16, 1944
JANUARY 25, 1945
SOUTHERN ARIZONA CHAPTER LIII
TRIUMPH OF COURAGE"
Face arrière - Achterkant
"[Drapeaux belge, américain et luxembourgeois - Vlaggen van
België, Verenigde Staten en Luxemburg]
THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
WAS FOUGHT BY THE U.S. ARMY IN THE HEAVILY FORESTED ARDENNES
REGION OF
EASTERN BELGIUM AND NORTHERN LUXEMBOURG FROM DECEMBER 16,
1944 THROUGH
JANUARY 25, 1945. WINSTON CHURCHILL, PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT
BRITAIN, CALLED IT
"THE GREATEST AMERICAN BATTLE OF WORLD WAR II"
SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND AMERICANS FOUGHT IN BITTER COLD AND
SNOW;
81,000 OF THEM WERE CASUALTIES; 19,000 OF THESE DIED.
VETERANS OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
IS AN ORGANIZATION OF THOSE WHO ENDURED AND SURVIVED
THAT
GREAT BATTLE. THE VICTORY OVER GERMANY
WAS A TURNING POINT
IN THE WAR. SOME OF THE SURVIVORS ARE MEMBERS OF
THE SOUTHERN ARIZONA CHAPTER LIII
WHO OFFER THIS MEMORIAL"
Ce monument ne comporte pas de noms de victimes de guerre -
Er staan geen namen van oorlogsslachtoffers op dit monument
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