On the roadside just outside the village.

A concrete slab built into a stonewall with aircraft parts inserted into the wall to include part of a propeller.

The memorial remembers First Lieutenant Robert W. Whitehead (37^th Fighter Squadron, 14^th Fighter Group) who was shot down and killed on this spot on April 11, 1945 after a dogfight with a FW-190.

From The 14^th Fighter Group Website:

Location, N. Of Strakonice, Czechoslovakia, Point Of Departure, Triolo, Italy. Hometown: Lake County, IN, killed in a dogfight on April 11, 1945 south-east of Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia. 1/Lt Whitehead with his flight of the 37th Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, 15th USAAF, in P-38 (44-25720) had destroyed a couple of locomotives and railroad cars on a mission to the Munich, Germany area when he encountered a pair of FW 190s returning to the base from a fighter-bomber mission in Austria or Moravia. The winner was subsequently shot down by 1/Lt Whitehead's wingman 1/Lt Harry R Morris Jr. (Reference: Missing Aircraft Report {MACR} 13980)

1LT Whitehead’s temporary grave is located about 2 kilometers north on the crash site in  the cemetery (Hřbitov)  of Ceske Budejovice- Dobra Voda.  The local community still maintains the gravesite as a cenotaph.  See this website for more information on the grave.

The text on the memorial reads:

11.4.1945

ROBERT W. WHITEHEAD

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