PiIsen Liberation Plaque (16th Armored Division)
Details:
Mounted on the wall in the main hallway inside City Hall. Plaque
Description: A large copper colored inscribed plaque and 5 feet high.
The plaque remembers the liberation of the city of Pilsen (Plzeň) in May 1945 by the 16th Armored Division and Czech resistance fighters.
Monument Text:
The text on the plaque is written in English and Czech and reads:
Presented
by 16th Armored
Division U.S.Army
to the citizens of Plzen C.S.R.
in commemoration
of their assistance
in the liberation
of Plzen
6th may 1945
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Venováno
16. pancérovou
divisí U.S.A.
obcanum mesta
Plzne C.S.R.
na pamet
jejich úcasti
pri osvobození Plzne
6. kvetna 1945
Lower plaque:
Odhalena 1945 * Znicena komunistickým režimem 1951 * Obnovena 1990
Unveiled 1945 * Destroyed by the communist establishment 1951 * Restored 1990
