In the triangular park in the center of the roadway.

An inscribed polished dark marble monument about 4 feet high.

The monument remembers the Tuskegee Airmen, Second Lieutenant Albert L. Young, who died near this location on January 21, 1945.

On January 21, 1945, 2LT Young  piloting P-51 “Daisy Mae” (42-103454), was part of a bomber escort mission to Vienna with the 100^th Fighter Squadron, 332^nd Fighter Group, “Red Tails", 15^th Air Force based out of Ramitelli, Italy. (The 332nd Fighter Group is also known as the Tuskegee Airmen Unit). During the mission his plane had mechanical difficulties and his plane crashed near Blučina, in the current Czech Republic.  (Reference Missing Aircraft Report {MACR} 11540)

He was buried in the Blučina cemetery and was later moved to the Lorraine American Cemetery in St. Avold, France. The town of Blučina (Brno) remembers Young with a monument, which was re-dedicated in 2018.

From the Sept 9, 2009 St. Louis Dispatch Newspaper:

Lt. Albert L. Young was last seen over Vienna, Austria.

Young of Memphis, Tenn., graduated from flight training on March 12, 1944, at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. He soon deployed to Italy with the 100th Fighter Squadron.

On Jan. 21, 1945, Capt. Edward Gleed led 46 P-51 Mustangs on a bomber escort mission to attack oil storage facilities near Vienna. Flight Officer Samuel J. Foreman reported engine trouble over northern Yugoslavia and started to turn back to Ramitelli Air Field in Italy. His flight leader ordered Foreman back to formation, and he was last seen completing a turn back toward the P-51s.

An hour later, Young reported engine trouble then disappeared when the flight entered clouds over Vienna.

"The flight leader called to tell the formation to drop tanks," 1st Lt. Sanford M. Perkins wrote in a military report. "We did so. I saw (Young) on his back, dropping one tank. I followed him into the overcast; spun, recovered and came out of the overcast at 28,000 feet. I was unable to contact him on the radio."

According to amateur Czech historian Jan Mahr, Young's body was found later that day in a field south of Brno, Czechoslovakia. Young was buried in a local cemetery on Jan. 22; his remains were exhumed and reburied at the Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial in France in September 1946. Young's plane was excavated in December 1990.

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

-Symbol of Aviator Wings-

2/LT ALBERT L. 

YOUNG

332^nd FIGHTER GROUP

15^th AIR FORCE , USAAF

TRAGICKY ZAHYNUL

+21.1.1945

ZDE LEŽÍ HRDINA

VELIKÉHO NÁRODA.

PADL ABY MOHL

MALÝ UJAŘMENÝ NÁROD

SVOBODNĚ DÝCHAT

The translation is:

-Symbol of Aviator Wings-

2/LT ALBERT L. 

YOUNG

332nd FIGHTER GROUP

15th AIR FORCE , USAAF

TRAGICALLY KILLED

+21.1.1945

HERE IS THE HERO

OF A GREAT NATION.

WHO SACRIFICED

SO A SMALL NATION

COULD BREATH FREE