Doubs. 80 years later, the poignant tribute to the American victims of the bomber crash in Fontain

The ceremony was held at the American Memorial in Fontain (AMAF), a small monument erected at the site of the crash and managed by the association of the same name, this Sunday morning, in freezing cold, comparable to the weather on 19 January 1945, the day of the tragedy which took six lives.

The names of the victims, engraved on the stele, recall how courageous these young men, American officers and non-commissioned officers, were, engaged in a war, far from their home, to liberate France and Europe from…