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To: Darksheare
Monuments to the 28th Infantry Division, Regiments, Companies
and Individuals of the Liberation (September 1944)
and of the Battle of the Bulge

Brandenbourg (Lux)
- Memorial to the 28th Infantry Division.

Consthum (Lux)
Memorial to Lt. Col. Daniel B. Strickler and to the 110th Infantry Regiment (28th I.D.).

Diekirch (Lux)
Memorial to the 5th, 9th, 10th Armored Division - 28th, 80th, 5th, 4th Infantry Division, (September 44 - January 45).

Eschweiler (Lux)
Plaque, Painting, Stained Glass Windows and Memorial to George O. Mergenthaler (28th Infantry Division) killed on 18 December 1944.

Hoesdorf (Lux)
Memorial to the 109th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division

Hosingen (Lux)
- to the men of K Company, 110th Regiment, 28th Division and to the soldiers of B Company 103 Engineer Combat Bn who gallantly defended Hosingen

Marnach (Lux)
- Memorial in honor to the 28th Infantry Division, Liberator and Defender of Marnach.
- Dedicated to the officers and men of the 707th U.S. Tank Battalion.
- Clock close to the memorial to the 28th Infantry Division. (The clock is part of the memorial)

Osweiler (Lux)
- Stele to the 5th Armored Division, 28th, 83rd, 4th Infantry Division 9th Armored Division. 5th, 87th Infantry Division. T.D. - F.A. 76th Infantry Division.

Spineux (Be)
- Memorial to the 112th Infantry Regiment (28th Infantry Division)

Weiler (Lux)
- Plaaz Tom Myers Square GI of "I" Co. 110th Infantry Regiment 28th Infantry Division.

Memorial to the "I" Co. 110th Infantry Regiment 28th Infantry Division.

Wiltz (Castle) (Lux)
- Memorial to the 28th Infantry Division which liberated Wiltz.

93 posted on 12/22/2002 2:02:25 PM PST by SAMWolf
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To: SAMWolf
There's a clock that's part of the memorial?
That's unusual. Sorry to be a bit of a bother about it, is there an explanation of the clock?

(*Slaps self for being an info hog pest!*)
Thanks for more info, SAM.
100 posted on 12/22/2002 2:14:40 PM PST by Darksheare
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To: SAMWolf
GenX bump. I spent what was then the better part of my net worth a few years back taking an indefinite time touring WWII sites in Europe. No real plan at first, other than to get the hell away from the desk and see something substantial. One leg of my trip was a drive from Liege to Bastogne and Malmedy (Baugnez) on down to Luxembourg. Saw most of the memorials you've listed. I chose to go in the dead of winter, when there was snow on the ground and no other travellers around. Hard to get a grasp of what was going on over there back then, until you see town after town expressing their gratitude with an American memorial on the highway. It is as if small-town Europeans are expressing more appreciation for the USA than even we do in our own country.

The cemeteries over there are especially sobering. You're looking at a sea of crosses and stars, names and home states...Texas, Alabama, Wyoming...all represented on snow-covered fields an ocean away from home. And the ocean was a hell of a lot bigger then. "This marker is final resting place of twenty men, Known but to God." A long, one-way trip from Nebraska, Minnesota, Louisiana. The Walls of the Missing - hundreds of names that quiety serve notice of infantry, armor, air crew, sailors simply vanished into foreign air, under foreign soil and waves.

110 posted on 12/22/2002 2:56:15 PM PST by Semaphore Heathcliffe
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