Royce E. Stephens and Herbert Herman Dedication Ceremony.

August of 2014, to the town of Storo, Italy. We were there as guests of the town for three wonderful and moving days. The two men who put together the dedication, Francesco Bologni and Massimo Parolari gave a detailed account of the bombing mission and events leading to the crash of the B25J up in the mountains above Storo in a place known as Nar. I was met by several men of Storo who were young boys when the crash occurred. They each told me what they found upon reaching the crash site and as they took their leave they would present me with a piece of the plane. On our last day in Storo, a Sunday, we attended a mass, and it was there that they unveiled the dedication to the two pilots who were killed in the crash, a stone marker bearing pictures of the two men and the dates of the crash. It was here that I was presented with the compass from the plane. The other notable occurrence was my visit to the Florence American Military Cemetery