July 15, 2024

Today at the Thank you, America! monument we said goodbye to wonderful person, WWII veteran, liberator, hero, friend and humble man, George Thompson, 16th Armored Division.

Today at the Thank you, America! monument we said goodbye to wonderful person, WWII veteran, liberator, hero, friend and humble man, George Thompson, 16th Armored Division. Lest we forgot his memory! For the book 500 Hours to Win in 2011, George stated: I volunreered for Army service when I was 19…

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July 13, 2024

George Thompson, the liberator of the City of Pilsen, our friend, passed away

Ve věku nedožitých 100 let nás opustil George Thompson. příslušník slavné 16. obrněné divize, hrdina, přítel, který se podílel na osvobození města Plzně a jihozápadních Čech,   Čest jeho památce, nikdy nezapomeneme!!!

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July 12, 2024

Happy 99th Heavenly birthday to José Schindfessel, hero and liberator of the city of Pilsen, membert of the Belgian 17th Rifle Battalion

Happy 99th Heavenly birthday to José Schindfessel, hero and liberator of the city of Pilsen, membert of the Belgian 17th Rifle Battalion He passed away 7 years ago. Lest we forget!

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June 13, 2024

Pilsen commemorated D-Day in Normandy

The city of Pilsen participated in the 80th anniversary of D-Day in France from 5 to 9 June 2024. This largest landing operation in military history, which began in Normandy on June 6, 1942, marked the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe from Nazism. Representatives of the West Bohemian…

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June 12, 2024

Happy heavenly 99th birthday to James Duncan, the liberator of Pilsen and soutwest Bohemia

Happy heave 99th birthday of the liberator of the city of Pilsen and Southwestern Bohemia, a wonderful and modest person, a friend, James Herbert Cavanaugh Duncan, a member of Company F, 38th Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. James passed away on April 1, 2022. Lest we forget.

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June 6, 2024

Today we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy

Today we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy. Allied veterans participate attend the ceremonies. Among them veterans, who participated in the liberation of southwestern Bohemia or whose families come from Czechoslovakia. They represent the following units of the US Army – 16th Armored Division, 4th Armored…

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