World War II Memorial - Debr, Czech Republic
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World War II Memorial - Debr
Waymark Code: WMYHEW
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 06/17/2018
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Almost every village in the current Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia) has a monument devoted to the victims of 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 Tarantík Václav (* 4/27/1911, Hrdlorezy /Mladá Boleslav/, †7/13/1944 Malborough Village, Exeter, Devonshire, UK).
Tarantík Václav, Wireless Operator, was a member of 311 Sqdn RAF.
Memorial Inscription:
ZEMRELI,
ABYCHOM MY MOHLI ŽÍT
5. kveten 1945
BÁZNER JOSEF HOZÁK FRANT.
BUBENÍK JINDRICH KRUPUCKA JOSEF
DRAHOTA VÁCLAV VANTULA FRANT.
HOFMAN VÁCLAV NECÁSEK JOSEF
HAVELKA RUDOLF + 11.5 1939
MOLAVEC VÁCLAV + 10. 5. 1945
DROBNÝ JAROSLAV - partyzán
PADL VE SNP 1944
TARANTÍK VÁCLAV - letec RAF
padl v bitve o Anglii
NIKDO NESMÍ BÝT ZAPOMENUT!