Plomium France

[Walt's Daughter]

I received this last week and am posting it here. Looks like he would like to talk with Sgt Leo!!!

 

I am French.

You quote Plomion.

Killed my family WAS Plomion to 31 .08.1944.

This American soldier is always alive?

I look for information.

THANK YOU

 

You have a few moments so I thought I would post this info: - became some data to someone else and I came up with what is data type that we try so hard to forget, even after 63 years and over but it will not go away! On 1 September 1944, before retiring SS left the field of Plomion, in France, they murdered the citizens, including many innocent women and children, burning houses with incendiary grenades. Sadistic evidence was everywhere. Plomion is almost on the border between France and Belgium in the vicinity of Hirson. The SS unit was not identified. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- FYI Data on the massacre of Plomion: - 951st Field Artillery Battalion with ID 9 - (the first U.S. Corps. to reach Belgium) The day (August 31), SS German troops execute 14 men of all ages in Plomion. Later in the morning of September 2nd, we started to leave this position. A French boy of my age came up to my jeep with his gun WWI. He lived in Plomion and who had escaped SS troops before the massacre. He asked me prendrelui with us to help in the war, but there was no way we could take a civilian. It was a very brave man and would have been worth its weight in gold. He was one of the few survivors of sex masculinde Plomion. In April 1996, Lieutenant Russell Kelch and I returned to Plomiom, France. We obtained the complete story of the tragedy of Plomion two kindergarten teachers taking children on a pied.Les teachers knew of this event and showed us a paper on the massacre. The German SS were looking for someone who took a shot at them, and when the SS could not find the sniper, they sacked and burned the village. When the villagers would not turn any more, the SS arrested 14 men and boys who had not fled the village. The 14 were beaten and executed. A monument was erected in the meadow where the atrocity took place. As we were looking at the monument, Lieutenant Kelch said, "You know, there have been times in my life when I wondered if that really happened or if it was all a dream. That's why I never talked about much. "I said," And now we know that it really happened. "Originally published in Bulletin 951st FA Battalion, fire --------------------------------------- Mission --------------------------------------- A monument was erected in the meadow to commemorate this atrocity. You have not been able to find a picture of if, but registration is as follows;

 

A monument was erected in the meadow to commemorate this

atrocity. Haven't been able to find a picture of if but the inscription

reads as follows;

Quote "Ce monument a été élevé vers 1950 sur les plans du

sculpteur R. Antoine et de l' architecte R. Cabet. Les 14 stèles

s' élèvent à l' endroit même où sont tombés, lors de la débacle

allemande du 31 août 1944, quatorze plomionnais victimes d'une

ultime riposte".end Quote

 

(MY Free Translation = This monument was erected circa 1950

using the plans of Sculptor R. Antoine and Architect R.. Cabet.

The bas relief was erected on the same spot where they fell at

the time of the German Massacre of August 31,1944,

14 Plomion people ,victims of an ultimate retaliation).

 

These memories just won't go away!! Reason #3 for absence!!

 

 

Sgtleo