Events 2009

Commemoration Events Calendar

Plzeň-Litice   
April 24, 2009, from 5 PM
Ceremony commemorating a shot-down U.S. airplane
http://umo6.plzen.eu/

Cheb   
April 25, 2009, from 9:00 AM
Cheb is the first major Czech city liberated by U.S. forces
http://www.mestocheb.cz/

Plzeň-Křimice
April 25, from 11:00 AM

Krupka 
April 27, 2009, from 10:00 AM
http://www.mukrupka.cz/

Prague
April 30, 2009, starts at 9:45 AM at Kampa
"Convoy of Liberty" - the annual parade of historic U.S. Army vehicles
From Kampa to the U.S. Embassy at Tržiště Street

Czech, American and Belgian veterans gather each year at the beginning of May to commemorate the liberation of Czechoslovakia by General Patton’s Army. The vehicles then travel throughout Bohemia, visiting towns that have their own liberation ceremonies.

Bělá nad Radbuzou - Hostouň
May 1, 2009, from 10:00 AM
http://www.sumavanet.cz/bela/

Díly
May 1, 2009, from 10:00 AM

Tachov 
May 1, 2009, from  12:00
http://www.tachov-mesto.cz/

Nepomuk
May 3, 2009, from 1:00 PM

Klatovy
May 5, 2009, from  8:45 AM
http://www.klatovynet.cz/klatovy/

Kdyně 
May 5, 2009, from 10:30 AM
http://www.kdyne.cz/
 
Kašperské Hory
April 6, 2009, from  12:00 AM
http://www.sumavanet.cz/khory/

Kynšperk nad Ohří
May 6, 2009, from 3:30 PM
http://www.kynsperk.cz/

Plzeň 
Liberation Festival
May 6, 2009, at 5:00 AM
http://www.liberationfestival.com/
Since 1990 the tradition has grown up of organizing an annual Liberation Festival in May. People come to the city from all over the world to welcome in the spring with music and dance, to meet American veterans and their friends and relatives, and of course to drink Pilsner beer.

Rokycany 
May 7, from 2:30 PM
http://www.rokycany.cz/

Sušice 
May 6, 2009, from 1:00 PM
http://www.sumavanet.cz/susice/
 
Mariánské Lázně
May 8, 2009, from 4:00 PM
http://www.marianskelazne.cz/cs/

Blatná 
May 9, 2009, from 10:00 AM
http://www.blatna.eu/

Hradištko
May 10, 2009, from 11:00 AM

Kovářská       
May 9, from 8:00 AM
http://www.kovarska.cz/