White Carpathians on South West view (direction Nova Bosaca) from the memorial to the air battle over Bile Karpaty Mountains in Vyskovec

White Carpathians on South West view (direction Nova Bosaca) from the memorial to the air battle over Bile Karpaty Mountains in Vyskovec

South West view from the memorial to the air battle over Bile Karpaty Mountains in Vyskovec, Zlin Region, Czech Republic, on June 5, 2019. On August 29, 1944, 599 bombers of the 15th U.S. Army Air Force took off from several bases in Italy, escorted by 294 fighters, and flew over the Adriatic Sea, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Slovakia to the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia controlled by the Nazis. Their task was to attack an oil refinery and the railway station in Ostrava rolling German trains for the Russian front. In one of the great air battles of the war and the greatest fought over Czechoslovakia 41 U.S. soldiers lost their lives, 28 of which are burried at the cemetery in Slavicin. (CTK Photo/Libor Sojka)

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  • ILEA000243373
  • Registered date
  • 2019/6/05 00:00:00
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  • CTK / Kyodo News Images
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  • CTK
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  • 4912 × 3264 pixel
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  • 300 dpi
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  • Special instruction
  • SLOVAKIA OUT, CZECH REPUBLIC OUT
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