65th Anniversary of Liberation of West Bohemia May 10 — For this year’s WWII commemoration ceremonies around the country, soldiers of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division joined Embassy staff to honor American soldiers and all those who died in liberating Czechoslovakia 65 years ago. Among the infantrymen of the 1st Division was SGT Clancey Henderson, currently stationed in Basra, Iraq, who won the U.S. Army’s Best Soldier (Warrior) Competition of 2009. During the final weeks of World War II, the task of freeing the western portion of Czechoslovakia fell to the soldiers of the American Third Army, led by General George S. Patton, Jr. American forces was ordered to halt at the Karlovy Vary - Plzen - Ceska Budejovice line. Altogether the Third Army liberated 3,485 square miles of western Czechoslovakia. Related Information: The Liberation of Western Czechoslovakia 1945 Czechs mark anniversary of liberation by American troops in WWII  Silent witness: Raw footage of the Allied liberation of western Bohemia premieres in Prague Biography of Sgt. Clancey Henderson General George S. Patton, Jr. Czech film archives receive rare footage of American troops in Bohemia Patton Memorial Pilsen Liberation Festival in Pilsen U.S. Vehicles in WWII

65th Anniversary of Liberation of West Bohemia

May 10 — For this year’s WWII commemoration ceremonies around the country, soldiers of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division joined Embassy staff to honor American soldiers and all those who died in liberating Czechoslovakia 65 years ago. Among the infantrymen of the 1st Division was SGT Clancey Henderson, currently stationed in Basra, Iraq, who won the U.S. Army’s Best Soldier (Warrior) Competition of 2009.

During the final weeks of World War II, the task of freeing the western portion of Czechoslovakia fell to the soldiers of the American Third Army, led by General George S. Patton, Jr. American forces was ordered to halt at the Karlovy Vary - Plzen - Ceska Budejovice line. Altogether the Third Army liberated 3,485 square miles of western Czechoslovakia.

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