LIBERATION! VE Day in Europe 1945
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Pilsen in the Czech Republic was liberated on the 6th May 1945 by elements of General George Patton’s 3rd Army.
Now each year the Czech people remember these events and put on a huge display of armour and parade through the streets accompanied by flypasts from wartime aircraft.
Travel to the city of Pilsen to experience the parade and the range of living history events going on in the city to commemorate the day they were finally freed from tyranny and oppression!
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