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Museum of Air Battle over the Ore Mountains, Kovarska, Czech Republic


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A very interesting museum in the Czech Republic near the German border:

 

Museum 11.09.1944

Albert E. Trommer Str. 696

43186 KOVARSKA

CZECH REPUBLIC

 

http://www.museum119.cz

 

At September 11, 1944, above the Ore Mountains a formation of B-17G Flying Fortresses of the 100th Bomb Group, 3rd Bomb Division escorted by P-51 Mustang fighters of the 55th and 339th Fighter Group 8th USAAF clashed with a formation of German Me109 and FW190 intercept fighters of the II.(Sturm) and III. Gruppe Jagdgeschwader 4. More then 50 airplanes were shot down during the battle.

 

Visited this museum for several times, they show off dig out parts of the planes, gifts from veterans, and much more. A very interesting museum.

 

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This is an amazing collection! There are over 300 photos of the museum through the virtual tour link. Thanks for posting this. I hope to see it one day.

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What a great thing that has been done by these people.

 

Very nice how they get everyone involved.

 

Great collection of things, stories and lives.

 

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gwb123, see you at Hof, Bavaria, Germany, for a trip to the Czech Republic!! They start after the fall of the iron curtain, and now it`s a great museum with a lot of gifts of veterans, both american and german. And today they support several other private owned museums who search for informations about the air war in World War II.

 

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Visited the museum there again after two years. Some new dig out relics in the collection in a new room together with some more gifts from veterans, and a new created room for "POW" history with a lot of information about captured american airmen from the shot-down planes. They have a little RAF room, too,

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Some more pics. First some information to the air-battle which is main part of the museum:

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a map of shot-down planes, red=german, blue=american

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radioman`s seat, B17

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puppet

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Razgy, seems it was a great day there. Post 16, is this a german licence plate on the SdKfz 247? Found in the internet someone build one on parts of an Landrover.

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Razgy, seems it was a great day there. Post 16, is this a german licence plate on the SdKfz 247? Found in the internet someone build one on parts of an Landrover.

 

no, they all are czech veteran licence plates

 

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Thank`s. Thought the "V" in the plate looks like a german plate from "Vogtlandkreis". Bad I couldn`t visit. Will visit Pilsen in November, hope I could visit the Patton museum there.

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