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General Patton and V Corps Town Liberation Monument

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Details:

In a small roadside park across the street from the Post Office.

 

Monument


An inscribed reddish-polished marble about 5 feet high; the monument includes a brass profile of General George Patton.

 

The monument remembers the liberation of the town of Stříbro  by the V Corps, commanded by LTG Clarence Huebner, of the US 3rd Army under General George Patton.  

 

The town was specifically liberated by the 386th Infantry Regiment, 97th Infantry Division supported by the 16thArmored Division.  

 

V Corps consisted of the 1st, 2nd, and 97th Infantry Divisions, the 9th and 16th Armored Divisions, the 102nd Cavalry Group and a number of field artillery battalions, combat engineers, logistical support, and medical units. V Corps served in and around Czechoslovakia from early May until mid-June 1945.

 

Monument Text:

The text on the monument is written in Czech and English and reads:

 

 

-Engraved brass profile of George Patton-

 

 

PŘÍSLUŠNÍKŮM

V. SBORU TŘETÍ

AMERICKÉ ARMÁDY,

TEŘÍ DNE 5.KVĚTNA

1945

OSVOBODILI

MĚSTO STŘÍBRO

 

- Brass symbols of the 3rd Army; 16th Armored and 97th Infantry Divisions-

 

 

TO THE SERVICEMEN

OF THE Vth CORPS

OF THE THIRD

AMERICAN ARMY

WHO ON MAY 5. 1945

LIBERATED

THE TOWN OF STRIBRO

Commemorates:

People:

Clarence Ralph  Huebner

George Smith Patton

Units:

16th Armored Division

386th Infantry Regiment, 97th Infantry Division

3rd US Army

97th Infantry Division

V Corps

Wars:

WWII

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