Next to the town war memorial.

A black marble upright inscribed memorial.

The memorial remembers two crew members of B-17 (44-8004) of the 414th Bomber Squadron, 97th Bomber Group, 15th Air Force who were killed after the plane crashed landed on October 14, 1944.

B-17 (44-8004) piloted by 1st Lt. Victor J. Bieniek was part of a mission to from Amendola Airfield, Italy to Blechhammer Oil Refinery (in what is now Blachownia lska, Poland). After the mission the B-17 ran out of fuel and made a crash landing in an open field near the village of Pruinsky; two of the crew were killed during capture and the others became POWs. Missing Aircraft (MACR) Report 9592.

A memorial marks the crash site of B-17 (44-8004).  See site Napagedla-Pruisky, B-17 (44-8004) Crash Marker - 97th Bomber Group for more on this event.

Source: Mapy.com and www.vets.cz

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

J.JOHNSON
R.W.WINTERS
"AMERICKÝ BOMBARDÉR B 17 G NOUZOV
PISTÁL V LOKALIT NAPAJEDLA PRUSINKY.
DVA AMERITÍ LETCI BYLI ZASTELENI."
14.-X.-1944

The English transaltion:

J.JOHNSON
R.W.WINTERS
"AMERICAN B-17 G BOMBER MADE AN EMERGENCY
LANDED AT THE PRUSINKY SITE.
TWO AMERICAN AIRMEN WERE SHOT."
14.-X.-1944