Zum Gedenken an die am 29.5.1944
in Fischbach abgestürzte amerikanische Flugzeugbesatzung.
Vier Soldaten der 15. US - Air Force fanden dabei den Tod.
In memory of the aircrew of the 15th. US Air Force who crash landed in
the vicinity of Fischbach
on May 29th, 1944. Four of the Airmen lost their lives and seven survived.
B24- J Liberator 42 - 73416 (98 BG / BS 344)
† George Furdich, (OH)
† Zebulon V. Penny, (VA)
† Victor C. Hawthorne, (PA)
† Frederick E. Deuel, (MI)
William T. J. Foster, Pilot (OR)
James M. Elder, Co Pilot (TX)
Peter Skopic, (PA)
Dennis J. Lochner, (IL)
Donald H. Kennedy, (WI)
Edwin R. Follet, (MN)
Robert H. Honeycutt, (TN)
"The Austrians were friends to me then and they still are friends
to me this day and they will be friends to me to the day I die ".
(Robert H. Honeycutt. USA. Jänner 2012)
Fischbach, Juni 2012
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In front of the parish church of St. Aegydius in Fischbach there is a
memorial stone with a metal plaque commemorating the crash of a US Air Force
plane on May 29, 1944, in which 4 people lost their lives. According to the
"Missing Air Crew Report number 5443", the survivors parachuted out before the
crash. See the inscription above.