Memorial Cross for Pilots of a Crashed Allied Bomber at Kasereck

The weathered wooden cross with a military helmet reminds of the crash of an Allied military aircraft and its crew during the so-called "Big Week" in February 1944. At the end of February 1944, the Allies attacked a series of centers of the German and Austrian arms industry from the air. On February 25, 1944, several Allied aircraft were shot down and crashed in the mountainous area of Hochgolling between the Salzburg Lungau and Styria. Crew members died in the process, although some were able to escape by parachute. They were later picked up and taken to prisoner of war camps. Near a trail at the Bueggerhütten at Kasereck (municipality of Lessach) at an altitude of about 1900 meters, a memorial commemorates the site of one of the aircraft crashes, in memory of a deceased bomber pilot.