On Dubec Hill, off the road in a wooded area. Monument

The memorial includes an engraved stone about 5 feet high; 9 stones representing each of the crew that died; and a highly polished titled obelisk.

On February 22, 1944, B-24 “Miss Fortune” (42-73138), of the 343^rd Bomber Squadron, 98^th Bomber Group, “The Pyramiders”,  47^th Bomb Wing, 15^th Air Force was flying out of Fortunate Cesare (Lecce), Italy was on a Bombing mission to Regensburg, Germany.  The targets during the “Big Week” of February 1944 were enemy aircraft production facilities.  After bombing the target, the formation was attacked by over a dozen enemy aircraft and was under severe anti-aircraft fire.  “Miss Fortune” was hit and right wing badly damaged.  The planed crashed on Dubec Hill near Nepomuk, in the present day Czech Republic.  (Reference Missing Aircraft Report {MACR} 2726)

All of the crew, except for the Right Waist Gunner T/SGT Raymond Noury, perished in the crash.  Noury was able to parachute out landing in soft snow with a damaged chute; he was taken prisoner for the rest of the war which he spent in Luft  Stalag IV in 4 Gross-Tychow.  

There is memorial at the crash site on Dubec Hill (Nepomuk)  and in the center of the Village of Prádlo remember the crew. A cenotaph in the Prádlo cemetery remembers were the crew was buried until repatriated. A museum in Nepomuk, Czech Republic has a display regarding “Miss Fortune”. 

See this website sites Pradlo; Pradolo-Nepomuck; and Nepomuk for more on the “Miss Fortune” memorials.

The Crew of “Miss Fortune” included:

KIA:

1st Lt. George M. “Skipper” Goddard, Jr, Pilot

1st Lt. Haig “Knady” Kandarian, Co-Pilot

1st Lt. Joseph F Altemus, Navigator

1st Lt. Charles F Spickard, Jr, Bombardier

TSgt. Oscar W Houser, Engineer

SSgt. Harold C Carter, Armorer-Ball Turret Gunner

SSgt. John A. “Goldy” Goldbach, Left Waist Gunner

SSgt. Roy E Hughes, Top Turret Gunner

SSgt. Wayneworth E. “lord Nelson” Nelson, Tail Gunner

SSgt. Rexford H. Rhodes, Nose Gunner

And the Survivor:

T/SGT Raymond A. Noury, Right Waist Gunner

The "tilted obelisk" Memorial was dedicated on May 3, 2009 by World War II veteran Raymond A. Noury, the only crew member who survived the crash, and he was made an honorary citizen of the town of Nepomuk and the village of Prádlo

The crew's sacrifice for freedom is told in in the book  "Miss Fortune's Last Mission" by Bill Boyce and John  H. Torrison (2015).

The fallen crew members were interred together on June 16, 1950, Jefferson Barracks St. Louis,MO in SECTION 84 SITE 148.

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

POSTAVENO K UCTĚNÍ PAMÁTKY AMERICKÝCH LETCŮ

15.LETECKÉ ARMÁDY USA, KTEŘÍ V TĚCHTO MÍSTECH

TRAGICKY ZAHYNULI 22.ÚNORA 1944 PO LETECKÉM

SOUBOJI S NĚMECKÝM PROTIVNÍKEM.

1.PILOT PORUČÍK GEORG M. GODDARD

2.PILOT PORUČÍK HAIG KANDARIAN

NAVIGÁTOR PORUČÍK JOSEPH FREDERICK ALTEMUS

BOMBOMETČÍK PORUČÍK CHARLES FAYNE SPICKARD

STŘELEC SERŽANT OSCAR WILLIAM HOUSER

STŘELEC SERŽANT REXFORD HARWELL RHODES

RADIOOPERÁTOR SERŽANT WAYNEWORTH EVANSON NELSON

STŘELEC SERŽANT HAROLD CLEVURN CARTER

STŘELEC SERŽANT ROY ELTON HUGHES

STŘELEC SERŽANT JOHN ALOYSIUS GOLDBACH

HAVÁRII LETOUNU B-24J LIBERATOR PŘEŽIL STŘELEC

SERŽANT RAYMOND A.NOURY

VĚNUJÍ OBČANÉ NEPOMUCKA 22.2.1997

The translation is:

BUILT TO honor the memory of American Air Crew

15 th US AIR Force, WHICH IN THIS PLACE

TRAGICALLY DIED ON FEBRUARY 22, 1944 AFTER AIR

Combat with a German opponent.

PILOT LIEUTENANT GEORG M. GODDARD

CO-PILOT LIEUTENANT HAIG KANDARIAN

NAVIGATOR LIEUTENANT JOSEPH FREDERICK ALTEMUS

BOMBADIER LIEUTENANT CHARLES FAYNE SPICKARD

GUNNER SERGEANT OSCAR WILLIAM HOUSER

GUNNER  SERGEANT REXFORD HARWELL RHODES

RADIO OPERATOR SERGEANT WAYNEWORTH EVANSON NELSON

GUNNER SERGEANT HAROLD CLEVURN CARTER

GUNNER SERGEANT ROY ELTON HUGHES

GUNNER SERGEANT JOHN ALOYSIUS GOLDBACH

THE GUNNER OF THE B-24J LIBERATOR who survived was

SERGEANT RAYMOND A. NOURY

DEDICATED  BY THE CITIZENS OF NEPOMUK 22.2.1997