memorial to the air battle over Bile Karpaty Mountains in Vyskovec, bomber B17-G

memorial to the air battle over Bile Karpaty Mountains in Vyskovec, bomber B17-G

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)

  • Product Code
  • ILEA000243432
  • Registered date
  • 2019/6/05 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • CTK / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • CTK
  • Media size
  • 4576 × 3041 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 300 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 9.03(MB)*
  • Special instruction
  • SLOVAKIA OUT, CZECH REPUBLIC OUT
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