Monument

Camp Griffiss - USAAF

Inscription

{On the plaque on top of the 5-sided plinth:}
This tablet marks the site of the European Headquarters of the United States Army Air Forces July 1942 – December 1944 and is dedicated by the Royal Air Force to their comrades-in-arms. 

It is through fraternity that liberty is saved - Victor Hugo.

The quotation from Hugo is very well-chosen. He was exiled from France for 15 years and returned the day after the fall of Napoleon III's empire. When he arrived at Paris Gare du Nord, he made a brief speech to the crowd gathered to give him a hero's welcome, from which the quotation comes.

Site: Camp Griffiss - USAAF and the Berlin Airlift (2 memorials)

TW11, Bushy Park

The hard-standing is attractively laid out with slabs, bricks and tiles making a 5-sided star pattern. The girl on the bike, Beth, kindly agreed to appear in some of our photos to provide scale and colour.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Camp Griffiss - USAAF

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World War 2

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Camp Griffiss / Widewing

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Royal Air Force

Formed 1st April 1918 at Hotel Cecil, 80 the Strand where it had its first he...

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Victor Hugo

Novelist, poet and dramatist, best known in the UK for Les Misérables, 1862, ...

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