pericles

"Take these men as your example, like them remember that posterity can only be for the free: that freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it." Pericles, 431 BC

Thursday 18 July 2013

Ashby

St Mary's

52.53238, 1.66690
TM 489 990
photos taken 27 June 2012


This memorial was erected by the Hon Savile Crossley, Lord Somerleyton. The stories of the crashes can be found in the book Final Flights, written by Ian McLachlan.









NEAR THIS PLACE ON MAY 7TH 1944

1ST LT RALPH W WRIGHT
LT JACK W RAPER
LT RICHARD CURRAN
LT CARL A HERRMANN
S/SGT RANDOLPH C MOORE

ALSO ON APRIL 8TH 1945

LT RUSSEL P JUDD
F/O LOUIS S DAVIS

ALL OF THE USA 8TH ARMY AIR FORCE
GAVE THEIR LIVES IN DEFENCE
OF THIS COUNTRY

GREATER LOVE HAS NO MAN THAN THIS
THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE
FOR HIS FRIENDS.

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