The 353d's flew its last combat mission (its 448th) on 25 April 1945, when it escorted Royal Air Force and 398th Bombardment Group bombers attacking Berchtesgaden and Pilsen.
The battalion moved into Germany, seeing action around Nuremberg in the first week of May, and finishing the war at Plzeň, inside Czechoslovakia.
The play premiered in 2008 in the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Plzeň, Czech Republic
Leaping Lena was a homing pigeon, reported lost in early August, 1954 during a routine flight in West Germany, and then found again bearing an anti-Communist note signed "Unbowed Pilsen." She was flown to the United States, and treated as a Cold War hero.
Described by the Midwest Book Review as a generation of "thirty-somethings who have fallen through the cracks of parental, academic, and worldly expectations," this group is given voice in Blyler's debut novel, Steffi's Club, set in the subterranean streets of Plzeň, Czech Republic, several years after the Velvet Revolution and the fall of Communism.
Cooper made his international début for Scotland's under-21s in the 1976–77 season in a 0–0 draw against the Czech in Pilsen.
The ČSD Czechoslovak state railways used hundreds of 52s post-war, partly left here by the Nazis after the liberation in May 1945, partly brought in as war reparation and/or (re)built by the Škoda Works in Plzeň.
In 2003 Bull’s award-winning series of carborundum etchings entitled Barcelona! (2001) was exhibited at Gallerie Universitini in Plzeň, Czech Republic.
At the age of 14, he started and completed a 4 year cooperage apprenticeship in Pilsen, Bohemia.
However, during the same time, Col. Szacki made contacts with the anti-German Czech underground and became involved in clandestine plans for an uprising in Plzeň.
Pierce commanded the division during the liberation of Pilsen.
Born in Mirošov, Karel Kašpar attended the seminary in Plzeň and the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare in Rome.
Trains were produced by Saint Petersburg-based Vagonmash factory in cooperation with Škoda Dopravní Technika of Plzeň, Czech Republic in 2005.
Lenka Radová-Zemanová (born October 9, 1979 in Plzeň) is a triathlete from the Czech Republic, who competed at two Olympic games (2004 in Athens, and 2008 in Beijing).
The completed line of contact between Canadian/US/British forces and Soviet forces began at Wismar on the Baltic coast and proceeded south, passing along Schwerin; Magdeburg; an area east of Leipzig; and on to the Czech town of Pilsen; and towards Linz in Austria.
She was prized at the 1970 Enescu (Bucharest) and 1974 Smetana (Plzeň) competitions, and ranked 6th at the inaugural edition of the Sydney Competition.
The flooding was not the only reason of the landslide - structure of the hillside resulted in constant slow shift down, sandstone quarries used for centuries had lowered stability of the slope and the recently built railway Plzeň – Žatec cut yet another dent to the hill.
His father Alois came originally from Pilsen (Czech Republic and had started out working in the Oderfurter Mineraloelwerke at Ostrau (near Halle (Saale), Germany); he subsequently went to Galicia to work as a manager in the oil fields there and eventually became Technical Director of Nafta A.G. in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine).
The last mission for the 303d was flown on 25 April 1945 when it attacked an armament works in Pilsen.
The 398th flew its last combat mission, attacking an airfield in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, on 25 April 1945.
In 2009, the Schenley Plaza renovation won the Silver Award in the Environmentally Sustainable Project category at the 2009 International Awards for Livable Communities held in the Czech Republic city of Plzeň.
Development began in 1906, when a development contract was placed by the Austro-Hungarian high command with Skoda-Werke in Pilsen to develop a weapon capable of penetrating the concrete fortresses being built in Belgium and Italy.
There was a comprehensive library (1,440 volumes, 550 works) at the castle, the collection of which is today mostly at the Bohemian castle Kozel near Pilsen.
It was exhibited at Plzeň Expo and the next year at the Geneva Motor Show.
Zuzana Růžičková (14 January 1927, Plzeň) is a Czech harpsichordist, an interpreter of classical and baroque music.
It is very interesting that sometimes the toponyms are paired with those having the name Czernobog as in the case of hills Bileboh and Czorneboh near Bautzen in Sorbia, and of the Czech Bělbožice which is likewise paired with Černíkovice.
First game = U-23: Bulgaria 2-1 Czechoslovakia
Pleven, November 15, 1967
U-21: Czechoslovakia 0-0 Scotland
Plzeň, October 12, 1976
Last International
U-23: Czechoslovakia 1-1 Portugal
Teplice, November 12, 1975
European route E53, a road connecting Plzeň, Czech Republic and München, Germany
Among them was a Royal Air Force (RAF) Avro Lancaster from No. 57 Squadron piloted by Pilot Officer Jan Bernand Marinus Haye on a mission to bomb the Škoda Works at Plzeň.
Jaroslav Nedvěd (born September 24, 1969 in Liberec) is a Czech ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Plzeň of the Czech Extraliga.
Kout na Šumavě, village and municipality in Domažlice District, Plzeň Region, Czech Republic
Horní Kozolupy, a village in Tachov District in the Plzeň Region
Fillo began his 2011–12 season by making appearances in the Champions League qualifying stages, through which Plzeň progressed to the group stage.
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Fillo re-signed for Viktoria Plzeň on a four-and-a-half-year contract during the 2010/11 season and made 10 appearances, scoring one goal.
On December 29, 1941 Czechoslovak paratroopers Gabčík and Kubiš sent by exile government in London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich were inserted near Nehvizdy (they overflew predesignated target area near Pilsen by more than hundred kilometres due to navigational error of their plane crew).
Ota Ulč (1930 in Plzeň) is a Czech-American author and columnist.
Their plan had involved the sabotage of gasworks in Prague, providing radio-sets to other resistance fighters, and navigating bombers to the Škoda Works in Pilsen.
It was patented by Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria and Count George von Dormus and was manufactured by Skoda Works Plzeň.
He graduated from technical high school in Carlsbad, ceramic (porcelain visual processing) and the Faculty of Education at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (field of visual culture).