{"id":36653,"date":"2021-07-20T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creilsudoise-tourisme.fr\/?p=36653"},"modified":"2022-01-25T09:10:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T08:10:23","slug":"hero-cramoisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creilsudoise-tourisme.fr\/en\/2021\/07\/20\/hero-cramoisy\/","title":{"rendered":"A hero in Cramoisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"is-style-excerpt\">The story of a <strong>American hero who sacrificed himself <\/strong>for the village of <strong>Cramoisy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>A neutralisation mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>25 August 1944, <strong>while Paris was celebrating its Liberation<\/strong>, <strong>mission was launched to neutralise German airfields <\/strong>in the Laon and Reims area. Twenty-three pilots from the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Air Force, a US air formation, take off from their base in Neuilly-la-For\u00eat (Calvados).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>However, the soldiers were quickly intercepted by about thirty German fighters<\/strong>in the Creil-Clermont-Beauvais sector. Losses were heavy on both sides: many German fighters were shot down despite their numerical superiority, but this was at the cost of eleven American aircraft. Seven soldiers of the 9<sup>th<\/sup> The Air Force nevertheless managed to escape by parachute, some were even hidden by the population, others were captured by the German soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>The sacrifice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jerome James Zierlein, a 23-year-old Texan, is hit during the battle<\/strong>. He knew his plane was going to crash. Being just above the village of Cramoisy, Jerome James Zierlein chose to take the time to <strong>righting his fading aircraft to spare the village before attempting to escape<\/strong>. Being at too low an altitude, his parachute did not have time to open and the body of the 23-year-old Texan pilot was found near the Garenne woods, not far from where his plane had fallen. The remains of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Lt Jerome James Zierlein was repatriated to the United States after the war. He is now buried in San Jacinto Memorial Park in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Honouring the memory of Jerome James Zierlein<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monte Laster, artist living in Cramoisy,<\/strong> himself a native of Texas, <strong>is now working together with the Cramoisy Town Hall to honour the memory of this young soldier<\/strong>. A short film is in preparation, as well as a series of other projects that are intertwined around one desire: to allow, thanks to this work and the funds collected, the restoration of the church of Cramoisy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of an American hero who sacrificed himself for the village of Cramoisy A neutralisation mission On 25 August 1944, while Paris was celebrating its Liberation, a mission was launched to neutralise the German airfields in the Laon and Reims sector. 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