histoire d'une forteresse volante abbattue à Saint-Colomban, près de Nantes, le 4 juillet 1943
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history
BESSON MEMORIAL
1943 - 2004
July 3,4,5, 2004
newspapers
B17 HISTORY
# 42-5053
briefing
crash on July 4, 1943
in St-Colomban
Focke Wulf
into grand-lieu lake
B17 CREWMEMBERS
10 young
american boys
B17 technical
WITNESS
french
Ralph D. McKee
(his escape)
Pilot escape
crewmembers
families
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
thanks to
RESEARCH
american families
report
1943 - 2004


MEN OF DUTY...
A DUTY TO REMEMBER

family members of two of the downed B-17 crewmen, who attended to the memorial dedication.On Sunday 4 July 2004, 61 years later after the crash, a stele is erected in the hamlet of Besson.

On the picture, the members of McKee and Mooney families.

Ralph McKee (Florida 2003)
Ralph McKee
(Florida, 2003)