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U.S. Commemorates War Veterans in Lithuania

9 November 2006

Media event: The ceremony will take place on Friday, November 10, 2006, at 11:00 am. At 11:30am, Ambassador Cloud will be available to take questions from journalists.

On Friday, November 10, 2006 at 11:00 am, U.S. Ambassador John Cloud, Lithuanian Navy Commander RADM Kestutis Macijauskas, and Silute County Deputy Mayor Albina Bumblauskiene will join representatives of the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense and members of the United States Defense Attaché Office to participate in a Veterans’ Day ceremony at the Macikai village cemetery in Silute region.

The guests will be welcomed by a Lithuanian Navy Honor Guard.  Ambassador Cloud and Lithuanian representatives will make brief speeches and lay wreaths. The Lithuanian Navy Chaplain will lead a prayer.

The ceremony will honor three United States Army Air Corps Airmen who were shot down, captured, and held at Stalag Luft 6, a Nazi War Prisoner camp outside of Macikai during World War II.

Staff Sergeant George B. Walker, Staff Sergeant Walter Nies, and Technical Sergeant William F. Teaff died while in captivity and now rest near the site of the old camp.

The exact location of the three B-17 airplane crewmember’s remains within the cemetery is unknown.  A small monument sits in the approximate spot where the three are buried.  The cemetery is also the final resting place for Belgian, Polish and German military personnel affiliated with the former camp, as well as Lithuanians.  
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