Holland & Bastogne 1944–45
Easy Company memorial, Bois Jacques
Memorial · Timeline 14–15
GuideHolland & Bastogne 1944–45
AreaBastogne & the Bois Jacques
TypeMemorial · Timeline 14–15
Time to allow30 min
LocationExact spot known
GPS50.02890, 5.75671
The story
Built by the Men of Easy Company Foundation on the Bizory–Foy road: fourteen names of Easy men killed here between 18 December and 13 January, and a text about −28 °C nights with little food and ammunition.
What to look for
Read the names, then walk on into the wood.
Nearby sites
- Easy Company foxholes, Bois Jacques · under 1 km
- Bizory · 1 km
- Foy · 2 km
- Recogne German war cemetery · 2 km
- Bastogne War Museum & Mardasson Memorial · 3 km
- Bastogne Barracks · 4 km
All 48 sites in Holland & Bastogne 1944–45 →
Easy Company: Holland & Bastogne
A free field guide for your phone: the route, the maps and the stories built in, even with no signal. The places of Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge, following Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne: Hell's Highway, Nijmegen and the Island, the Bois Jacques at Bastogne, the cemeteries of the Ardennes and Haguenau in Alsace.
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