Almost every village in the current Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia) has a monument devoted to the victims of WWI and WWII. Among the victims of WWII were also civilians who participated in home resistance against German occupiers or died in German concentration camps. The monuments also mention the names of soldiers of the former Czechoslovak army. These soldiers fled abroad from the occupied homeland and were involved in fighting in the east and west of Europe. They created a separate Czechoslovak unit that was part of the Red Army or Allied armies of the Great Britain and the United States.
A special group of soldiers of WWII were Czechoslovak airmen who joined the RAF. In the RAF, there were several squadrons (
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The inscription of this monument also mentioned the name Vladimír Sobotka.
Vladimír Sobotka, Sgt, Air Gunner, (* 11/04/14, Moravská Nová Ves, † 08/18/1942 missing from the operational flight of Wellington KX-B DV665, missing on patrol in the Bay of Biscay, probably shot down by fighter), was a member of 311 Sqn RAF.
Plaque Inscription:
MARNÉ CEKÁNÍ-MY UŽ DÁVNO TLÍME.
MY SE NIKDY VÍCE DOMU NEVRÁTÍME.
NÁŠ ŽIVOT-I OBET-VŠE PATRÍ VÁM…
MY PADLI, JAK ZÁKONY KÁZALY NÁM…
VLADIMÍR SOBOTKA
ROTNÝ CS. LETECTVA 11.4.1914 V MOR. NOVÉ VSI.
ODEŠEL DO ZAHRANICÍ V BREZNU 1940. V ANGLII
VYZNAMENÁN CS. MEDAILÍ ZA CHRABROST A DVAKRÁTE CS.
VÁLECNÝM KRÍŽEM. ZAHYNUL V LETECKÉM BOJI
18.8.1944 NAD BISKAJSKÝM ZÁLIVEM
JAN CERNÝ
PLK. RUDÉ ARMÁDY 15.6.1912 V MOR. NOVÉ VSI.
OD R. 1940 – 1942 JAKO ZPRAVODAJ SOVET. SVAZU
V PRAZE V ÚSTREDÍ KOM. STRANY 27.7.1942
UVEZNEN NA PANKRÁCI A PAK V TEREZÍNE.
2.5.1944 POPRAVEN V BRANDENBURGU
LUDVÍK SECKÁR
DES. VLÁD. VOJSKA 11.10.1920 V MOR. NOVÉ VSI
PREŠEL V SEVERNÍ ITÁLII K PARTYZÁNUM 6.11.1944.
1.3.1945 OBKLÍCEN NEMEC. ARMÁDOU A ZAJAT. UVEZNEN
VE VERONE A 25.4.1945 GESTAP. UMUCEN.
JAN NEŠPOR
ÚREDNÍK 28.10.1913 V MOR. NOVÉ VSI
ZAMESTNÁN V PRAZE. UVEZNEN PRO SABOTÁŽ
7.1.1945 A 4.5.1945 GESTAP. UMUCEN V TEREZÍNE
JAN HREBACKA STÁTNÍ POLICISTA V OLOMOUCI
24.6.1910 VE VÍDNI. PRÍSLUŠNÝ DO MOR. NOVÉ VSI.
UMUCEN V NEMECKU 12.4.1945 V KONCENT. TÁBORE BAUTZEN
JAROSLAV PROKOP 24.4.1919 V MOR. NOVÉ VSI
10.5.1945 PRI VÝBUCHU MINY V MYSLOCOVICÍCH
JAN CECH
30.6.1899 11.6.1942 V DACHAU.