In front of the building.

A large gray fieldstone with an inscribed brass plaque attached to the front.

The memorial remembers the B-24 (42-50447) 'Flying Rumor of the 859th Bomber Squadron attached to the 15th Special Group (Provisional), (renamed the 2641st Special Group).  "Flying Rumor' was assigned an Operation Carpetbagger mission to resupply Czech Partisans on the night of April 16/17 1945 (Target 'Ely 4') near Brno (Czechia) and was shot down by a German night fighter.  The entire crew was able to parachute to safety and were rescued by local partisans and resistance. The crew fought with the local resistance and was eventually able to cross into Soviet lines and then pass to US lines by the war's end.

The crew of 'Flying Rumor included:

1st Lt Thomas O. McCarthy USAAF - Pilot
1st Lt Rosslyn C. Anderson USAAF - Co pilot
2nd Lt Robert E. Beach USAAF - Navigator
2nd Lt Amando Carlino USAAF - Bombardier
S/Sgt Mack H. Dias USAAF - Radio Op
Sgt Charles S. Jones USAAF - Dispatcher/ Waist Gunner
S/Sgt James B. Tate USAAF - Flight Engineer
Sgt Robert J. Webber USAAF - Tail Gunner

This plane (42-50447) may have also had the name 'Buzz Tail II' prior to this mission. The 859th Bomber Squadron had previously been assigned to the 492nd Bomber Group flying 'Carpetbagger' missions from Harrington in England.  About December 1944 the 859th was transferred to Italy and flew missions from near Brindisi.

Source: https://www.scribd.com/document/429501950/Aircraft-Lost-on-Allied-Forces-Special-Duty-Operations. and, https://www.vets.cz

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

7. DUBNA 1945 V 0.30 H. DOPADL NEDALEKO
ODTUD HOÍCÍ AMERICKÝ ZÁSOBOVACÍ
LETOU LIBERATOR B-24
S NÁKLADEM ZBRANÍ PRO S. ODBOJ.

PADÁKY ZACHRÁNILY POSÁDKU PED
PLAMENY, ETÍ A ESTONTÍ PARTYZÁNI
S OBTAVOU POMOCÍ VESNICKÉHO
OBYVATELSTVA PED NEPÍTELEM.

VICHNI SPOLEN
BOJOVALI ZA NAÍ SVOBODU A DSTOJNOST.

English Transaltion:

APRIL 7, 1945  **AT 0:30 AM A BURNING AMERICAN SUPPLY FLIGHT LIBERATOR B-24 WITH A LOAD OF WEAPONS FOR THE CZECHOSLOVAK REBELS. PARACHUTES SAVED THE CREW FROM THE FLAMES, CZECH AND ESTONIAN PARTISANS WITH THE SACRIFICE OF THE VILLAGE POPULATION FROM THE ENEMY. ALL FIGHTED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM AND DIGNITY.

THOMAS O.McCARTHY
ROSSLYN C. ANDRSON
ROBERT E. BEACH
ARMADO CARLINO
JAMES B. TATE
MACK H. DIAS
ROBERT J. WEBBER
CHARLES S. JONES

DOKALI SE VÍTZSTVÍ
TINOV 1997

(THEY WAITED FOR VICTORY
TINOV 1997)

** Note:  The actual date of the crash was the night of 16/17 April 1945