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Město Plzeň
February 9, 2024
It is with great sadness we learned about the passing of John C. Woodside, the liberator of the City of Pilsen and the member of the 16th Armored Division. Lest we forget!
June 5, 2024
For the celebrations commemorating the 80th anniversary of the landing of the Allies on the coast of France in World War II, 35 historic military vehicles of the US Army and a group of about 100 people living hitory clubs are heading to Normandy from Pilsen. Deputy Mayor Lucie Kantorová will…
October 27, 2024
Happy 100th Birthday to the US WWII veteran, hero and liberator of Southwest Bohemia, member of the 97th Infantry Division, Paul Pallmeyer Happy Birthday, all the best! Photo credit: Christina Bigelow Pieper Video interview with Paul Pallmeyer is about to be published at the Liberation Festival Pilsen…
February 9, 2024
It is with great sadness we learned of the passing of Amos Vredenburg, the liberator of the City of Pilsen and the member of the 16th Armored Division. Lest we forget!
June 6, 2024
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…
November 27, 2024
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lt. Col. Virgil Paul Kirkham, the last American airman to die during the war in Europe. Today we remembered him by laying flowers at the crashsite at Zadní hora. Virgil´s niece Marilyn Kirham sent a letter to us where she even mentions”…This…