Just off the road, on the side of a slight hill.

A red stone about 4 feet tall with the symbol of the 15^th Air Force and a brass inscribed plaque on the front.

Fifteenth Air Force was established on 1 November 1943 as part of the United States Army Air Forces in the World War II Mediterranean Theater of Operations as a strategic air force and commenced combat operations the day after it was formed. The first commander was General Jimmy Doolittle.

The Fifteenth Air Force drew its operational forces from heavy bombers of the IX Bomber Command, the strategic bomber command of the Ninth Air Force which was relocating to the United Kingdom to become a tactical air force in the European Theater of Operations, the Twelfth Air Force, and by a diversion of groups originally intended for the Eighth Air Force.

Mainly operating out of bases in southern Italy, the Fifteenth Air Force, along with the Eighth Air Force and RAF Bomber Command, became the instruments used by the Allies to carry the strategic air offensive to Axis occupied Europe and Germany.

The Fifteenth was de-activated in Italy 15 September 1945.

(from the 15^th Air Force Association Website)

The text is written in Czech and reads:

K UCTĚNÍ PAMÁTKY LETCŮ

15. LETECKÉ ARMÁDY USA,

KTEŘÍ ZAHYNULI PŘI LETECKÝCH BITVÁCH

NA TEPLICKU V LETECH 1944 – 1945

The translation in English:

"To honor the memory of the pilots

of the 15th aerial army of the USA

who died during the aerial battles over

Teplice in the years 1944-1945."