Tourelle de Sherman - Champs, Belgium
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Tourelle de Char Sherman Firefly
Waymark Code: WM156Q6
Location: Luxembourg, Belgium
Date Posted: 10/27/2021
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Monument consists in a Sherman Firefly Turret.
It is located at the main crossroad in Champs Village.
The village of Champs was used by the occupying army to launch attacks against the nearby town of Bastogne, where the 502nd Infantry regiment of the 101st Airborne were surrounded and resisting fiercely. The German tanks were destroyed and the fighting ended hand-to-hand in the village, from one house to the other. from one cellar to another.
Monument inaugurated on October 17th 2004 in memory of the victims of these battles.
Date of Dedication: 10/17/2004
Property Permission: Public
Location of waymark:
Rue du Rond Fromage
Bertogne, Luxembourg Belgium
6687
Commemoration: Battle of the Bulge
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