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38th Cavalry Squadron Town Liberation Plaque

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Details:

On the front of the cultural center at the second floor level.

Plaque


A marble plaque with raised bronze lettering and a brass symbol of the US Army.

 

The plaque remembers the 38th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized), of the 102nd Cavalry Group, V Corps of the 3rd US Army.  The 38th Cavalry liberated the town of Přeštice on May 6, 1945 and was subsequently stationed in the town until August 1945.

Monument Text:

The text on the plaque is written in Czech and English:

 

NAŠIM OSVOBODITELŮM

38. CAVALERIE USA

NA VĚČNOU PAMÁTKU

VDĚČNÉ OBYVATELSTVO

PŘEŠTIC

 

TO OUR LIBERATORS

OF 38TH CAVALRY US ARMY

IN EVERLASTING MEMORY

GRATEFUL CITIZENS

PŘEŠTIC

 

V tomto domě bylo velitelství posádky US armády

6.května 1945

Obnoveno 5.V.1990.

 

Translation:


This building became the Headquarters of the US Army on May 6, 1945

 

Dedicated on MAY 5, 1990

 

Commemorates:

Units:

102nd Cavalry Group

38th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron

3rd US Army

V Corps

Wars:

WWII

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