The monument consists of a square base the superior face of which is beveled in four plans, on one of which is put a bronze commemorative tablet. On the base raises itself a double symbolic wing in the front of which a cross is backed. The center of the cross contains the emblem of the 550th squadron, also bronze.
In front of monument, there is a hole of 8m of diameter, filled with water: it is the impact point of the plane.
Three years after the drama of Berinzenne, the parents of Phil Milburn, Officier-pilot of Lancaster LM 581-BQ-D, shot down by a German night fighter, April 23rd, 1944, receive a mail.
This letter, drafted by R. G. de Lame, based in the flying club of Spa, liaison officer of the British and American strengths explains that a monument had been erected by the Belgians, in gratitude to their son and to the other members of his crew for the act of bravery which they had done by by-passing the city of Spa, with their plane, which then burned, to bring down it outside the zones of houses. By their sacrifice, they avoided an even bigger drama.