At the back of a small park

A large field stone with an engraved plaque attached to the front, and a plaque mounted to a stand on the side of the stone.

The memorial remembers 12 American airmen executed by the enemy.  It is unclear who these 12 were.  The side plaque remembers the B-17 (42-97266) 'Godfathers inc.' of the 602nd Bomber Squadron, 398th Bomber Group that the memorial claims was the last bomber of the 8th US Air Force shot down during WW2 during a mission to bomb the Skoda armament works in Pilsen, then Czechoslovakia; six of the eight crew were killed in action.  The 398th Bomber Group Association newsletter provides some background on this last mission (below).  The other plane shot down on his mission was  the B-17 (43-38652) 'Stinker Jr'; one of the crew, S/SGT Charles B. Walker was killed in action, the remaining crew survived.

From the 398th Bomber Group Association Newsletter, April 1993 "Last Mission" extract:

The last World War II mission flown by the 398th Bomb Group ... and the Eighth Air Force ... was 48 long years ago. April 25, 1945. 

Including this long flight to Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, the last of 195 such combat missions, the 398th sacrificed 296 men as "killed in action." Plus another 298 who survived bail outs and crash landings in
enemy territory and spent time in the various German PW camps. what would prove to be the Last Mission.
three miles south of Pilsen.

The "Operations Officer's Report" of for Mission No. 195 (as most official mission reports) is crisp, factual, concise ... and says nothing of the human drama played out that day.  Buried in the text are these innocent "Four aircraft received major battle damage, 19 received minor damage and two aircraft were lost from this group due to flak.''
Not one word about the fact that one airman was shot and killed by a German soldier. Nor a word about four others from the same crew who also perished and also were probably shot and killed by the Germans. Nor a word about the one gunner who was found dead near the crash site. Nor a word about the two who did survive the bail outs and subsequent marches with their captors. And of the other B-17 that went down with the loss of one crew member. Nor the experiences that some of the others had after bailing out and "capturing" their German captors who had seen the handwriting on the wall. (The Russians were coming.). SLET  (Czech) researchers claim that a French prisoner of war actually witnessed the execution of the four airmen. It is known that the four bodies were exhumed from local graves and removed to American military cemeteries. There remains a "division" among local residents as to the authenticity of the PW story. However, a memorial was erected in Litice in 1946 in memory of "the American airmen killed by the Germans." The plaque was ordered changed by the Communist government in 1960 to show that it was the Russians who had liberated Pilsen, not the Americans. In 1990, the original plaque was retrieved from its hiding place and again installed on the memorial. It is there today.

The crew of 'Godfather Inc' included: 

P 2/Lt. Allen Ferguson -KIA
CP F/O John Halbart -KIA
N/B 2/Lt. Howard Feldman -KIA
ETG T/Sgt. Joseph Heustess -KIA
RO T/Sgt. Michael Brennan -KIA
BTG S/Sgt. Walter O'Malley -POW
WG S/Sgt. Harry Mazur -POW
TG S/Sgt. Byron Young -KIA

The KIA are also remembered on the stained glass windows in the St. George Church in Anstey, England.  See Site Anstey -St. Georges Church, Memorial 398th Bomber Group Memorial Stained Glass Window for more on this memorial.

Source of photos and information:  Vets.cz; Mapy.com; & American Air Museum Britain

The plaques are written in Czech and English.

The plaque in the center memorial reads:

IN MEMORY
OF TWELVE AMERICAN FLYERS
TORTURED TO THE DEATH BY THE GERMANS
IN LITICE

PAMÁTCE DVANÁCTI AMERICKÝCH LETC
UBITÝCH NMCI V LITICÍCH

1945

The plaque on the side of the memorial reads:

398TH BOMB GROUP (H) 8th AIR FORCE, 1st AIR DIVISION

DEDICATED TO HONOR AND MEMORY OF THE CREWMEN
OF THE B-17 G 42-97266, K8-G, WHO DIED APRIL 25, 1945
NEAR PILSEN, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, ON THE LAST EUROPEAN COMBAT
MISSION FLOWN BY THE 8th AIR FORCE IN WORLD WAR II

VNOVÁNO POCT A PAMÁTCE LENM POSÁDKY
B-17 G 42-97266, K8-G, KTEÍ ZEMELI 25. DUBNA 1945
NEDALEKO PLZN V ESKOSLOVENSKU, BHEM POSLEDNÍ
BOJOVÉ MISE DRUHÉ SVTOVÉ VÁLKY V EVROP,
KTERÁ BYLA VEDENA 8. LETECKOU ARMÁDOU.

LT. ALLAN H. FERGUSSON JR.
PILOT

LT. HOWARD U. FELDMAN
NAVIGATOR

F/O JOHN R. HALBERT
CO PILOT DRUHÝ PILOT

T/SGT. JOSEPH A. HEUSTESS
ENGINEER/GUNNER PALUBNÍ MECHANIK/STELEC

T/SGT. MICHAEL J. BRENNAN
RADIO OPERATOR RADISTA

S/SGT. BYRON O. YOUNG
TAIL GUNNER ZADNÍ STELEC

DEDICATED BY THE SURVIVING CREW MEMBERS
VNOVÁNO LENY POSÁDKY, KTEÍ PEILI
HARRY E. GRAY, HARRY I. MAZER, WILLIAM D O´MALLEY,
JOHN F. SCHMID & Letecko-historickým sdruením SLET Plze
JUNE 14, 2000 14. ERVNA 2000