At the bend in the road next to a bench about 200 meters form the river.

A field stone with a metal inscribed plaque and embossed picture of Corporal Martin Zebersky.

Corporal Martin Zebersky was a crewman, Gunner, on B-24 42-51692 (Captain Henry J. Kreiensieck crew) of the 759th Bomber Squadron, 459th Bomber Group.  On August 22, 1944, Zebersky's plane was on a mission to the Blechhammer Oil Refinery (in what is now Blachownia lska, Poland).  The plane was damaged during the mission and crashed at this location; Corporal Zebersky was killed and the rest of the crew was able to successfully parachute from the aircraft.  They were all taken as POWs.

A cenotaph memorial also remembers Corporal Zebersky in the nearby town of Lipník nad Bevou.  See site Lipník nad Bevou Cemetery, Corporal Martin Zebersky Cenotaph -459th Bomber Group.

Several other memorials remember other aircraft shot down during this mission:

Another B-24 from this squadron was shot down and crashed in the Bacárna woods near Korytná and is remembered with a memorial.  See Site Korytna-Bacarna, B-24 (42-50403) Crash Memorial -459th Bomber Group.

A P-51 escorting the mission flown by 1LT James Hoffman was also shot down.  A memorial to him is located nearby in Vésky.   See Site Vezky, 1LT James Hoffman, P-51 (44-13431 ) Crash Memorial- 52nd Fighter Group

Sources of information and photos: Cz.vets;  Mapy.com;  Find a Grave and http://www.leteckabadatelna.cz

The text on the plaque is in Czech and reads:

PER ARDVA AD ASTRA
UTRPENÍM KE HVZDÁM
USAAF

V TCHTO MÍSTECH SE ZÍTIL
DNE 22. SRPNA 1944
LETOUN B-24 LIBERATOR
VE KTERÉM ZAHYNUL
AMERICKÝ LETEC

CPL. MARTIN ZEBERSKÝ

EST JEHO PAMÁTCE
LIPNÍK NAD BE.- NOVÉ DVORY

The English Translation:

PER ARDVA AD ASTRA
THROUGH SUFFERING TO THE STARS
USAAF

IN THIS PLACE A B-24 LIBERATOR

CRASHED ON AUGUST 22, 1944,

IN WHICH THE AMERICAN AIRMAN

CPL. MARTIN ZEBERSKY DIED

IN HONOR OF HIS MEMORY
LIPNÍK NAD BE.- NOVÉ DVORY