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26th infantry division in Czechoslovakia, May 1945

AL0HA

Good evening,

I am a researcher from Czech Republic (Europe).

I am looking for unit reports, information, documentation, photos, aerial photos and anything else, about hour and a half long battle between the US 104. infantry regiment of 26. Infantry division and the German Wehrmacht, SS and SA units in Czechoslovakia at the small village named Větrná (before, Nesselbach) near Vyšší Brod (before, Hohenfurth) and the subsequent disarmament of the another German units retreating from Český Krumlov (before, Krumau) to Větrná (Nesselbach)

This all happened in the south of Czechoslovakia between 7th and 9th May 1945.

I´ll paste some link with photos for better understanding where the location is

Thank you for your time :-)

uloz.to/.../FsgcOiWbGULJ

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    I could not see any photographs in your link. However, my grandfather was with the 26th Infantry Division during the time and participated in its these events.

  • 0 in reply to KarenGleason

    If he was in 104th infantry regiment,  could you please tell me more about his memories from czechoslovakia?

  • 0 in reply to AL0HA

    Hello Aloha. Yes my grandfather was in the 26th Infantry Division’s 104th Infantry Regimen, Company I. He didn’t talk about his memories much, but he kept an old wooden shoe with “Czechoslovakia” written on the bottom. He did talk about being part of the occupying forces in Linz and life guarding at a pool there in the summer of 1945, and my mother has a postcard he sent from Linz in October 1945. He also had a Nazi flag he said was taken down off an officer’s barracks (we presume at Gusen concentration camp) with names/home town signatures from 14 others, presuming his platoon, which he said he won by a roll of the dice. My cousin later located one of those platoon mates who had an identical flag with identical signatures, including our grandfather’s. Let me know if you want more information. 

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    Hello Aloha. Yes my grandfather was in the 26th Infantry Division’s 104th Infantry Regimen, Company I. He didn’t talk about his memories much, but he kept an old wooden shoe with “Czechoslovakia” written on the bottom. He did talk about being part of the occupying forces in Linz and life guarding at a pool there in the summer of 1945, and my mother has a postcard he sent from Linz in October 1945. He also had a Nazi flag he said was taken down off an officer’s barracks (we presume at Gusen concentration camp) with names/home town signatures from 14 others, presuming his platoon, which he said he won by a roll of the dice. My cousin later located one of those platoon mates who had an identical flag with identical signatures, including our grandfather’s. Let me know if you want more information. 

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