Memorial for American and German air force personnel at the War Memorial Ehrwald

On 3 August 1944, intense air battles took place, extending from Vils over the Außerfern to the Inntal. German fighters shot down eight American aircraft with 79 crew members. Thirty men lost their lives. The Museum Association Ehrwald erected a memorial in memory of these events, designed by Gerd Leitner. The stone of the memorial comes from the quarry of Mauthausen; the turbocharger of an American aircraft was recovered from the Leutascher Gorge by Keith M. Bullock. All costs were covered by American veterans and their descendants, locals, companies, and the communities of Leutasch and Ehrwald. Pastor Michael Lerchenmüller from Holzhausen consecrated the memorial on 3 August 2001. Deborah Benson, the granddaughter of one of the bomber gunners, unveiled it.