WINCHENDON (MASSACHUSETTS)
Wereth Eleven and Battle of the
Bulge Memorials
Mémoriaux des Onze de Wereth et de la Bataille des Ardennes
Memorialen voor de Wereth 11 en de Slag om de Ardennen
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Location - Localisation - Ligging: Massachusetts Veteran's Memorial Cemetery, 111 Glenallen Street GPS coordinates - Coordonnées GPS - GPS-coördinaten: +42°41'06.8", -72°01'06.7" Inscription - Inscriptions - Opschriften "[Logo "VETERANS OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE - ARDENNES"] BATTLE OF THE BULGE WORLD WAR II DEDICATED TO THE GALLANT AND VICTORIOUS AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE ARDENNES CAMPAIGN IN BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG 16 DECEMBER 1944 THROUGH 25 JANUARY 1945 THIS MAJOR CONFLICT CALLED "THE GREATEST BATTLE EVER FOUGHT BY THE UNITED STATES ARMY" LED TO VICTORY IN EUROPE ON MAY 8. 1945 THIS BATTLE WAS WON AT THE COST OF 80,987 AMERICAN CASUALTIES INCLUDING 19,485 KILLED CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER 22 VETERANS OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE" "[Logo "VETERANS OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE - ARDENNES"] DEDICATED TO THE ELEVEN AFRICAN - AMERICAN SOLDIERS OF THE 333RD FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALION, WHO WERE TORTURED AND MURDERED BY THE GERMAN SS IN WERETH, BELGIUM ON DECEMBER 17, 1944, AND TO THE 260.000 AFRICAN - AMERICAN GI'S WHO FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE AND EUROPE PRESENTED BY THE CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER 22 VETERANS OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE" Additional information - Informations complémentaires - Bijkomende informatie Belgian memorial to the Wereth Eleven - Monument érigé en Belgique à la mémoire des "Onze de Wereth" - Belgisch monument voor de "Wereth 11" Ce monument ne comporte pas de noms de victimes de guerre - Er staan geen namen van oorlogsslachtoffers op dit monument |
Photos - Foto's :
Massachusetts
Veteran's Memorial Cemetery at Winchendon; source - bron [185]