Memorial 297th Combat Engineer Battalion Tribehou

This memorial, unveiled in July 2024 (80 years after D-Day), honours the men of the 297th Combat Engineer Battalion who built a Bailey bridge over the Taute River here on 21 July 1944. Around 6 p.m. that day, the village was shelled by German artillery, killing two engineers and causing a large amount of ammunition to explode.

Several information boards describe the events between 6 June, when the first paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division landed here, and the construction of the bridge on 21 July 1944.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Ferdinand Bovenschen