On the side of the building with the town pub; adjacent to the parking lot on the wall.

A brass inscribed plaque attached to the side of a building.

The memorial remembers US Army Air Forces B-24 42-64483 of the 345th Bombardment Squadron, 98th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force flying out of Fortunato Cesare Airdrome, Lecce, Italy, on 22 February 1944 on a combat bombing mission to the target at Regensburg, Germany. The B-24 was only a few minutes away from reaching the target when it was hit by anti-aircraft flak and attacked by many enemy fighters causing it to catch on fire and then explode. Missing Aircraft Report (MACR) 2727. The plane was shot during the "Big Week" in February 1944.

From the Natioanl Museum of the US Air Force Website:

Big Week: February 20-25, 1944

 
In February 1944, the USAAF and RAF conducted an all-out campaign against Germanys aviation industry and the Luftwaffe.  Heavy bombers from the Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces hammered aircraft, engine, and ball-bearing plants by day, and RAF bombers attacked by night.  Code named Operation Argument, it became known as Big Week.
 
By this time, USAAF fighters had the range to escort the bombers all the way to their targets, causing havoc with the Luftwaffe defenders.  The USAAF flew nearly 4,000 heavy bomber sorties (one sortie is one airplane flying one mission) and dropped more than 20 million pounds of bombs on industrial and military targets during Big Week.   The USAAF lost more than 200 heavy bombers, with about 2,600 casualties.
 
Big Week operations cost the Luftwaffe a third of its available fighter aircraft.  More importantly, a fifth of the Luftwaffes irreplaceable veteran fighter pilots were lost in combat. 

Source of information and photos: http://www.leteckabadatelna.cz/havarie-a-sestrely/detail/275/

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

Poblí Bukovce se 22.února 1944 zítil americký bombardér B-24 Liberator
Ze svazku 343. Bombardement Squadron 98. Bombardement Group (H) 15.Air Force.
Stal se obtí palby nmeckých stíhacích letc nedlouho poté, co útoil na leteckou továrnu
Messerschmidt v Regensburgu. Americký letoun explodoval jet ve vzduchu.

V jeho troskách zemeli
1.pilot 2./Lt.Joseph Merkle, 2. pilot 2./Lt. William H Mills Jr.,
navigátor 2./Lt. Howard S. Robinson, bombometík 2./Lt. Edward A. Goodman,
palubní mechanik S/Sgt. Santiago A. Gomez, radiooperátor S/Sgt. Johnna L. Wooten,
stelec Sgt. Robert D. Smith, stelec Sgt. Rudolph A. Meyer,
zadní stelec Sgt. Edward Koscielecky a stelec pední ve Sgt. Floyd R. Kriegbaum.

Katastrofu Merklova Liberatoru, který byl prvním americkým strojem
znieným za 2. svtové války nad územím pedmnichovského eskoslovenska,
peil pouze stelec Sgt. James M. Doolittle.

ZEMELI V BOJI ZA SVOBODU UTLAOVANÝCH
- EST JEJICH PAMÁTCE !

English Translation:

On February 22, 1944, an American B-24 Liberator bomber from the 343rd Bombardment Squadron of the 98th Bombardment Group (H) of the 15th Air Force crashed near Bukovec. It was hit by German fighter fire shortly after attacking the Messerschmidt aircraft factory in Regensburg. The American plane exploded in mid-air.

The following died in the wreckage: pilot 2nd Lt. Joseph Merkle, pilot 2nd Lt. William H Mills Jr., navigator 2nd Lt. Howard S. Robinson, bombardier 2nd Lt. Edward A. Goodman, flight engineer S/Sgt. Santiago A. Gomez, radio operator S/Sgt. Johnna L. Wooten, gunner Sgt. Robert D. Smith, gunner Sgt. Rudolph A. Meyer, rear gunner Sgt. Edward Koscielecky and the forward turret gunner Sgt. Floyd R. Kriegbaum.

The disaster of the Merkle Liberator, which was the first American machine
destroyed during World War II over the territory of pre-Munich Czechoslovakia,
was survived only by the gunner Sgt. James M. Doolittle.

THEY DIED IN THE FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE OPPRESSED
- HONOR TO THEIR MEMORY!