22nd Infantry Monument to a Fallen German Soldier

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  1. rover77

    rover77 Well-Known Member

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    'On October 7, 1994 members of the 22nd Infantry Regiment Society dedicated a monument to a German Soldier
    from the Second World War. The monument stands near the entrance to the military cemetery in Hürtgen, Germany,
    the final resting place for over 2900 German Soldiers. It honors Leutnant Friedrich Lengfeld,
    a Company Commander in the German Army, who lost his life trying to save a wounded American Soldier.
    It may possibly be the only monument erected anywhere, by former US Soldiers, to honor an act
    of bravery by a German Soldier, who at the time of the act, was an enemy at war with the United States.'
    a footnote worth remembering


    Source: http://1-22infantry.org/history4/lengfeld.htm
     
  2. Lil Mike

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    Are we supposed to knock it down now? The rules keep changing so I can never tell.
     

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