George Fisher Parramore III - Service Number 33221489

Unit: 389th Bomb Group - 566th Bomb Squadron - 8AF USAAF

Failed to Return from Solingen in B-24 Liberator 42-72876, Nickname “Lucky Tiger” 1 December 1943

Killed in Action, shot down, age 22.

Born in Cheriton, Virginia, 4 November 1921. Son of George Fisher Jr and Rebecca “Becky” Reid (Sterrett) Parramore.

While returning from a raid on Solingen, he was shot at by German fighters. On the orders of the commanding lieutenant, the crew left the badly damaged aircraft one by one. During the jump, Parramore hit one of the stabilizers of the aircraft, causing his parachute to open only partially. He crashed to his death in a field at Hauthem on 1 December 1943, barely 22 years old.

After the war, SSgt. George F. Parramore was exhumed and finally buried at the Ardennes American Cemetery in Neupré, Plot D, row 5, grave no. 36. This hero was awarded the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Purple Heart. His family visited the grave in 1985.

The monument was erected on 2 September 1989 as a memorial and tribute to Staff-Sergeant G. F. Parramore who was killed in the field next to the memorial stone on 1 December 1943. It also symbolises all the victims of the air battle of the allied forces who died between Sint-Truiden and Leuven, and even all over Europe during the Second World War.