Memorials Old Town Hall Sint-Oedenrode

On the old town hall in Sint-Oedenrode are some Plaques, one of them commemorates 11 killed American liberators of Sint Oedenrode.

Text on the Plaque:

WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM

THESE BRAVE PARATROOPERS
OF B COMPANY 502 ND
PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT.
101 ST. AIRBORNE DIVISION.
GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THE LIBERATION
AND DEFENSE OF SINT-OEDENRODE
IN SEPTEMBER 1944

HENRY F. BILODEAU CECIL F. MILLER
MICHAEL P. CHERUB LOUIS C. SEE
JOHN C. CRAINE RALPH J. ZERBE
LUTHER W. DAVIS IVIE A. WARD
ORIN F. KEYES JR. REDMOND D. WELLS JR.
WILLIAM J. HEATHER

THIS MEMORIAL PLAQUE
INSTALLED BY THEIR COMRADES
OF B COMPANY
THE DUTCH AIRBORNE FRIENDS
AND THE TOWN OF SINT-OEDENRODE

17-9-1985

The other plaque is in memory of of the mobilization of the Dutch 2nd Regiment Hussars. There is also a plaque that remembers the mobilization of this regiment during World War One.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Lennard Bolijn
• LEEUWEN, M. VAN & STAARMAN, A., Tastbare Herinneringen 1914-1918, Western Front Association Nederland, 2008.

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