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86th Chemical Mortar Battalion Memorial, Dolhain

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Bernd 🌲🦌🍄🥾

December 25, 2023

The location of this monument is in the park at the corner of Avenue Victor David and Bêverie.

GPS coordinates: +50°36'43.64", +5°56'40.79

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Oliver🌍

March 21, 2021

This monument commemorates the American 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion that fought in the Ardennes Campaign and Battle of the Bulge.

Text on the monument:

86th Chemical Mortar Battalion Association

Honors and Remembers

86th Chemical Mortar Battalion, United States Army, World War II

With Headquarters and rest area at Dolhain, Belgium, 6 November 1944 to 4 march 1945

During the Ardennes Campaign and Battle of the Bulge

Its 40 men killed in battle

Its men serving valiantly for 315 days of continuous combat in all 5 major

Compaigns of European Theater of Operations with 366

Wounded and 198 decorated

The people of Dolhain for their friendship and hospitality despite

The war´s hardships

WE CARRIED THE TORCHES OF FREEDOM

AND FRIENDSHIP FORWARD

JakobusPilger

March 21, 2024

Such cenotaphs or war memorials are still very important today as a memorial to the many dead. “Now you, O Lord, are letting your servant depart in peace, as you said…” says the so-called “Song of Simeon” (Gospel of Luke chapter 2, verse 29). However, the people who are remembered here did not die in peace, but rather became victims of war and tyranny. This is why the term “Fallen Monument” is now sometimes used instead of the previously most common “war memorial”.

Many places and monuments that you encounter along the way are a testament to the horror of war and tyranny - which is still significant and relevant today. They all have, and this is new for each generation, two essential functions:

-1- Commemorate and remember the victims

-2- Call for the preservation of peace

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Location: Limbourg, Verviers, Liège, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

86th Chemical Mortar Battalion Memorial, Dolhain

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