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Město Plzeň
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…
February 10, 2024
It is with great sadness we learned about the passing of Victor Jircik, WWII veteran and liberator od the City of Pilsen. Lest we forget!
June 13, 2024
Happy heave 99th birthday of the liberator of the city of Pilsen and southwest 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!
November 30, 2024
Happy Heavenly 100th Birthday to Glynn G. Raby, WWII veteran, liberator of Pilsen and southwest Bohemia and the honorary citizen of Rokycany Glynn passed away las year in June. We honored Glynn G. Raby´s memory by laying of the flowers at the 2nd Infantry Division memorial in Pilsen. …