Dit Monument in de hal van het Gemeentehuis van Overbetuwe in Elst herdenkt de inwoners uit Elst aan de moedige daad van zes Amerikaanse soldaten op 29-10-1944 tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Tekst op het Monument:
THE INCREDIBLE PATROL
501st PARACHUTE INFANTERY REGt. 9COL. J.J. EWELL)
101st AIRBORNE DIVISION (GEN. MAXWELL D. TAYLOR)
HETEREN
29-31 OCTOBER 1944
HUGO S. SIMS
PETER R. FRANK
WILLIAM R. CANFIELD
FREDERICK J. BECKER
ROBERT O. NICOLAI
ROLAND J. WILBUR
IN THE NIGHT OF 29 OCTOBER 1944 SIX MEN OF THE 501st
PARACHUTE INF. REGT. OF THE 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION,
U.S. ARMY, CROSSED THE RIVER RHINE AT HETEREN IN TWO
RUBBER BOATS AND LANDED EAST OF RENKUM.
THEY SLIPPED THROUGH THE ENEMY LINES AND REACHED THE
HIGHWAY LEADING FROM EDE TO ARNHEM. THEY HID DURING THE
DAY. IN THE FOLLOWING NIGHT THIS PATROL CAPTURED 32
ENEMY OFFICERS AND MEN, AND TOOK THEM WITH IT ACROSS
THE RHINE TO THE AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS
UNVEILED
24 SEPTEMBER 1959
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