Near Lemay in St. Louis County, Missouri — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)

U.S. Army Air Forces Air Crash Victims May 13, 1945

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., July 10, 2016

1. U.S. Army Air Forces Air Crash Victims May 13, 1945 Monument

Inscription. Died May 13 1945 in an air crash
Hidden Valley Dutch New Guinea

MAJ Herman F Antonini
Illinois June 4 1915

MAJ Phillip J Dattilo
Kentucky March 18 1914

PFC Alethia M Fair
California September 16, 1894

CAPT Louis E Freyman
Indiana May 14 1916

PFC Marian C Gillis
California January 7 1917

1ST LT Lawrence F Holding
North Carolina October 21 1921

SGT Helen G Kent
California August 29 1921

1ST LT Robert E McCollum
Missouri February 3 1919

TEC 3 Marion W McMonagle
Pennsylvania October 31 1900

CPL Charles R Miller
Michigan January 7 1909

PFC Melvin A Mollberg
Minnesota June 6 1920

PFC George R Newcomer
New York March 29 1921

MAJ George H Nicholson
Massachusetts March 14 1911

S SGT Hilliard Norris
North Carolina August 28 1921

COL Peter J Prossen
Texas August 14 1907

CPL Melvyn A Weber
California October 28 1916

PFC Mary M Landau
New York December 13 1906

SGT Belle G Naimer
New York October 31 1911

United States Air Forces — World War II

Erected by United States Government.

Topics and series.

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This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Air & Space • Disasters • War, World II. In addition, it is included in the National Cemeteries series list. A significant historical date for this entry is January 7, 1917.

Location. 38° 29.985′ N, 90° 16.8′ W. Memorial is near Lemay, Missouri, in St. Louis County. It is on Monument Drive south of Middle Drive, on the right when traveling south. Monument is in Section 70. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 2900 Sheridan Road, Saint Louis MO 63125, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Greater St. Louis.

It is also in the American Midwest,

in the Lewis & Clark Corridor,

in the Corn Belt,

and in the Great River Road Region.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Viceroyalty of New France,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

the Louisiana Purchase,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Killed - Aircraft Accident - Alaska (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); United States Air Force (about 400 feet away); Khe Sanh Veterans Memorial (about 400 feet away); Michael Joseph Blassie (about 400 feet away); Ambushed Patrol (about 500 feet away); Victims of the Japanese Massacre (about 500 feet away); Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery (about 500 feet away); Minnesota Civil War Memorial (about 500 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Lemay.

Also see . . .
1. May 13, 1945 U.S. Army Air Forces Air Crash Details

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., July 10, 2016

2. U.S. Army Air Forces Air Crash Victims May 13, 1945 Monument

Looking west

. (Submitted on July 28, 2016, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.)
2. Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. (Submitted on July 28, 2016, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.)

Credits. This page was last revised on December 16, 2020. It was originally submitted on July 28, 2016, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 485 times since then and 12 times this year. Last updated on October 15, 2018, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on July 28, 2016, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.