Memorial Plaque - 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment - Quorn Memorial Gardens - Quorn, Leicestershire - World War II Memorials / Monuments on Waymarking.com

A plaque desicated to the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the US 82nd Airborne Division in thew Quorn memorial garden.

"The 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the US 82nd Airborne Division arrived in Quorn on February 14th, 1944. Their camp was on the Farnham estate, now owned by Rosemary Conley. The entrance was where the current opening for Northage Close (off Wood Lane) is now. The sergeant's mess was at what is now 27 Meeting Street.

The paratroopers departed two and a half months later on Monday May 29th 1944 to prepare for D-Day (operation Overlord, specifically at St Mere Eglise) and after a month fighting in Normandy they returned Quorn victorious. But the cost was high. Two-hundred and twenty men were killed in action out of a total of two-thousand.

They left Quorn again on Friday, September 15th 1944 to parachute into Holland (operation Market Garden, mainly centred around Nijmegen, Holland), never to return to Quorn as soldiers.

The village took the American paratroopers to their hearts. There is a plaque in the Memorial Gardens, upon which a wreath is placed each year on remembrance Sunday."

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Date of Dedication: 07/01/1994 Property Permission: Public Location of waymark: MEETING ST AND LEICESTER RD Quorn, Leicestershire England Commemoration: 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Normandy D-Day Landings Access instructions: Not listed Access times: Not listed Website for Waymark: Not listed

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