The program of the special live streaming of the 75th Anniversary
of the Liberation of Pilsen by the US Army

 

Sunday, May 3

11-12 AM

Opening of the special program to the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Pilsen by the US Army and the end of the 2nd World War with the Lord Mayor Martin Baxa

Interview with Pavel Rogl, owner of US Army military vehicles and commander of the 16th Armored Division reenactment camp, owner of the legendary Sherman tank

Live: North American T-6 Texan historical trainer aircraft fly past over the studio

Convoy of Liberty – documentary films from the previous years

Live: flowers laying ceremony at the 16th Armored Division memorial and the memorial to the Czechoslovak soldiers who fought on the Western Front at Husova street

12-1 PM

Post Bellum: period witnesses recordings, project information,
Guest: Mikuláš Kroupa, the head of the regional development, Memories of nations collegium

Eugenia, the story of the Czech hotel owner, occupation, war, air raids on Pilsen, liberation by the US Army, …
Guest: Jana Poncarová, the author of the book

Patton Memorial Pilsen museum news, presentation of the new book Freedom was not free
Guests: Ivan Rollinger, Karel Foud and David Foud

Excerpt from the period movie of the American national archive

1-2 PM

Anti-Nazi resistance in Pilsen and the area, Pilsen uprising
Guest: Petr Tolar, Living history club Tommy and Yankee

Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia life condition, period fashion show
Guest: Štěpánka Skálová, Living history club Tommy and Yankee

American army and its role in liberation of Bohemia, stories of the Men of the 2nd Infantry Division
Guests: Daniel Malý and Tomáš Hataj, Living history club Tommy and Yankee

Documentary movies from National film archive

2-3 PM

Live: flowers laying ceremony at the 2nd Infantry Division memorial at Chodske square

The stories of the children of US soldiers in Pilsen and Western Bohemia
Guest: Veronika Bednářová, Czech cultural journalist and foreign newsperson, author of the coverage from the USA, South Africa and Great Britain

The onset of totality – the dark period when even talking about the liberation by the US Army is banned

3-4 PM

Tramp music, remembering Jan Vyčítal
Guest: Jaroslav Samson Lenk

Liberation celebration after the year 1989, the birth of Convoy of Liberty, Military Car Club Plzeň, jeep lovers phenomenon
Guests: Rudolf Bayer, Vojtěch Kašák, Václav Marhoul (Military Car Club Pilsen)

Living history club presenting the modern US Army – Liberation Festival Pilsen annual participation
Guest: JTF Raiders

Michal Čeliš´ movies (depicting Liberation Festival Pilsen and Normandy)

4-5 PM

2015 Liberation Festival Pilsen documentary movie - commemorative evening with WW veterans at Republic square directed by Václav Marhoul and Michal Caban

Looking back on the journeys to Arromanches on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy and to the USA, during which the City of Pilsen invited public to this year´s exceptional May Liberation Festival Pilsen presented by the City Councilor Lucie Kantorová and the Deputy Mayor Michal Vozobule.

Encounters with veterans
Guests: Tomáš Raboch, Pavla Kocourková, Martin Baxa

Recorded laying of the flowers ceremonies at the 16th Armored Division memorial and the memorial to the Czechoslovak soldiers who fought on the Western Front at Husova street and at the 2nd Infantry Division memorial at Chodske square

Greetings of the H.E. US Ambassador to the Czech Republic and H.E. Belgian Ambassador to the Czech Republic

5-5.30 PM

USAFE Band

Greetings of veterans

The end of the broadcast and the Thank you, America! Commemorative act broadcast teaser on May 6th

 

The program is accompanied by the music of the Pilsner Jazz Band and presented by Vladimír Šťovíček.

The program is subject to change.