World War II Nurse. Renee LeMaire died on Christmas Eve, 1944, while tending 30 U.S. soldiers during The Battle of the Bulge. While visiting her parents, this civilian nurse from Brussels had been stranded in the Luxemborg area of Belgium; having been recruited by the military to assist at a local aid station. As German aircraft relentlessly bombed the area around the aid station, which served the 20th Armored Infantry Battalion, 10th Armored Division, Combat Command B, she reentered the burning building, again and again, in an attempt to rescue wounded Americans. On her last pursuit of the wounded, Renee did not reappear, and was lost to the flames. She has been forever since known as "The Angel of Bastogne."
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A television documentary has it that Renee LeMaire lost her life as the result of a 500 lb. German bomb which hit the aid station and that she was killed immediately; her body having been severed in two, and was later found by the aid station American doctor in the ruins of the building. A silk parachute which was salvaged by the doctor with which Renee LeMaire hoped to make a wedding dress was, subsequently, used as a shroud for the heroic nurse.
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Augusta and Renee are buried near each other in the Bastogne cemetery.
Renee Lemaire: grave location is across the main entrance of the 'Bastogne Barracks' (right), the first entrance of three of the cemetery, and then some 55 yards into the cemetery
CEMETERY ID 2702175
Cimetière de Bastogne,
l’ancien cimetière civil de Bastogne
LOCATION
Rue de La-Roche 43, 6600 Bastogne,
Arrondissement de Bastogne,
Luxembourg, Belgique
Coordonnées GPS : 50.0081 5.7167 —
Cimetière de Bastogne Persons of Recognition:
• Renée Bernadette Émilie LeMaire
• Augusta Marie Chiwy
In southern Belgium’s Wallonia region is the town Bastogne; near Bastogne in Luxembourg province of Belgium is the Cimetière de Bastogne (Route N834), past Chapelle Saint-Laurent on same side of road (Saint-Laurent Chapel; Chapelle classée située dans l’ancien cimetière civil de la ville), and is directly across the road from the main entrance of the 'Bastogne Barracks'; Mardasson Memorial the monument honoring the memory of American soldiers wounded or killed during World War II's Battle of the Bulge, and the War Museum near.
Contributor: Gwynne H Seward (49350923)
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A television documentary has it that Renee LeMaire lost her life as the result of a 500 lb. German bomb which hit the aid station and that she was killed immediately; her body having been severed in two, and was later found by the aid station American doctor in the ruins of the building. A silk parachute which was salvaged by the doctor with which Renee LeMaire hoped to make a wedding dress was, subsequently, used as a shroud for the heroic nurse.
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Augusta and Renee are buried near each other in the Bastogne cemetery.
Renee Lemaire: grave location is across the main entrance of the 'Bastogne Barracks' (right), the first entrance of three of the cemetery, and then some 55 yards into the cemetery
CEMETERY ID 2702175
Cimetière de Bastogne,
l’ancien cimetière civil de Bastogne
LOCATION
Rue de La-Roche 43, 6600 Bastogne,
Arrondissement de Bastogne,
Luxembourg, Belgique
Coordonnées GPS : 50.0081 5.7167 —
Cimetière de Bastogne Persons of Recognition:
• Renée Bernadette Émilie LeMaire
• Augusta Marie Chiwy
In southern Belgium’s Wallonia region is the town Bastogne; near Bastogne in Luxembourg province of Belgium is the Cimetière de Bastogne (Route N834), past Chapelle Saint-Laurent on same side of road (Saint-Laurent Chapel; Chapelle classée située dans l’ancien cimetière civil de la ville), and is directly across the road from the main entrance of the 'Bastogne Barracks'; Mardasson Memorial the monument honoring the memory of American soldiers wounded or killed during World War II's Battle of the Bulge, and the War Museum near.
Contributor: Gwynne H Seward (49350923)
World War II Nurse. Renee LeMaire died on Christmas Eve, 1944, while tending 30 U.S. soldiers during The Battle of the Bulge. While visiting her parents, this civilian nurse from Brussels had been stranded in the Luxemborg area of Belgium; having been recruited by the military to assist at a local aid station. As German aircraft relentlessly bombed the area around the aid station, which served the 20th Armored Infantry Battalion, 10th Armored Division, Combat Command B, she reentered the burning building, again and again, in an attempt to rescue wounded Americans. On her last pursuit of the wounded, Renee did not reappear, and was lost to the flames. She has been forever since known as "The Angel of Bastogne."
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A television documentary has it that Renee LeMaire lost her life as the result of a 500 lb. German bomb which hit the aid station and that she was killed immediately; her body having been severed in two, and was later found by the aid station American doctor in the ruins of the building. A silk parachute which was salvaged by the doctor with which Renee LeMaire hoped to make a wedding dress was, subsequently, used as a shroud for the heroic nurse.
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Augusta and Renee are buried near each other in the Bastogne cemetery.
Renee Lemaire: grave location is across the main entrance of the 'Bastogne Barracks' (right), the first entrance of three of the cemetery, and then some 55 yards into the cemetery
CEMETERY ID 2702175
Cimetière de Bastogne,
l’ancien cimetière civil de Bastogne
LOCATION
Rue de La-Roche 43, 6600 Bastogne,
Arrondissement de Bastogne,
Luxembourg, Belgique
Coordonnées GPS : 50.0081 5.7167 —
Cimetière de Bastogne Persons of Recognition:
• Renée Bernadette Émilie LeMaire
• Augusta Marie Chiwy
In southern Belgium’s Wallonia region is the town Bastogne; near Bastogne in Luxembourg province of Belgium is the Cimetière de Bastogne (Route N834), past Chapelle Saint-Laurent on same side of road (Saint-Laurent Chapel; Chapelle classée située dans l’ancien cimetière civil de la ville), and is directly across the road from the main entrance of the 'Bastogne Barracks'; Mardasson Memorial the monument honoring the memory of American soldiers wounded or killed during World War II's Battle of the Bulge, and the War Museum near.
Contributor: Gwynne H Seward (49350923)
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A television documentary has it that Renee LeMaire lost her life as the result of a 500 lb. German bomb which hit the aid station and that she was killed immediately; her body having been severed in two, and was later found by the aid station American doctor in the ruins of the building. A silk parachute which was salvaged by the doctor with which Renee LeMaire hoped to make a wedding dress was, subsequently, used as a shroud for the heroic nurse.
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Augusta and Renee are buried near each other in the Bastogne cemetery.
Renee Lemaire: grave location is across the main entrance of the 'Bastogne Barracks' (right), the first entrance of three of the cemetery, and then some 55 yards into the cemetery
CEMETERY ID 2702175
Cimetière de Bastogne,
l’ancien cimetière civil de Bastogne
LOCATION
Rue de La-Roche 43, 6600 Bastogne,
Arrondissement de Bastogne,
Luxembourg, Belgique
Coordonnées GPS : 50.0081 5.7167 —
Cimetière de Bastogne Persons of Recognition:
• Renée Bernadette Émilie LeMaire
• Augusta Marie Chiwy
In southern Belgium’s Wallonia region is the town Bastogne; near Bastogne in Luxembourg province of Belgium is the Cimetière de Bastogne (Route N834), past Chapelle Saint-Laurent on same side of road (Saint-Laurent Chapel; Chapelle classée située dans l’ancien cimetière civil de la ville), and is directly across the road from the main entrance of the 'Bastogne Barracks'; Mardasson Memorial the monument honoring the memory of American soldiers wounded or killed during World War II's Battle of the Bulge, and the War Museum near.
Contributor: Gwynne H Seward (49350923)
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