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97th Infantry Divsion & 16th Armored Division Liberation Memorial

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Details:

In the field between the two raods.

Monument

An inscribed plaque attached to a field stone and an information sign.

The memprial remebers the liberation of Konstantinovy Lázn by the 97th Infantry Division commanded by MG Milton B. Halsey and then replaced by the 16th Armored Divsion commanded by the 16th Armored Divsion commanded by BG John L. Pierce.

This area was later used as a POW and refugee camp post-war.

 

Source of inforamtion and photos: https://www.vets.cz

Monument Text:

The text on the plaque is inscribed in Czech and English and reads:

7. KVTNA 1945 BYLY KONSTANTINOVY LÁZN OSVOBOZENY
AMERICKOU 97. PÍ DIVIZÍ BRIG. GEN. M. B. HALSEYE.
TI DNY POTÉ BYLA VYSTÍDÁNA AMERICKOU
16. OBRNNOU DIVIZÍ BRIG. GEN. J. L. PIERCE.
V TOMTO DOM P. 64 BYLO V LÉT 1945
UMÍSTNO VELITELSTVÍ AMERICKÝCH JEDNOTEK,
KTERÉ ZÍDILY ZDEJÍ REPATRIANÍ
A INTERNANÍ TÁBORY, JIMI PROLO NA 50 000 LIDÍ.

ZAPOMENOUT NA MINULOST
ZNAMENÁ OHROZIT BUDOUCNOST

 

TO FORGET OUR PAST MEANS
TO THREATEN OUR FUTURE

KONSTANTINOVY LÁZN WAS LIBERATED ON MAY 7, 1945
BY THE AMERICAN 97TH INFANTRY DIVISION UNDER
THE COMMAND OF GENERAL M. B. HALSEY.
THREE DAYS LATER, THIS UNIT WAS REPLACED BY THE 16TH
ARMORED DIVISION UNDER THE COMMAND OF J. L. PIERCE.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1945, A COMMAND POST WAS ESTABLISHED
IN HOUSE NUMBER 64.
THE AMERICAN UNITS THEN SET UP A FACILITY WHICH SERVED
AS A CAMP FOR 50,000 WAR PRISONERS AND REFUGEES.

Commemorates:

People:

Milton Baldridge Sr. Halsey

John Leonard Pierce

Units:

16th Armored Division

3rd US Army

97th Infantry Division

Wars:

WWII

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