Excursion to the monument of American airmen near Šanov

For a few years I had planned to visit a place near the village of Šanov, which is connected with the air battle over the White Carpathians. The aerial battle began on August 29, 1944, approximately one hour before noon, when German air defenses attacked ten delayed American bombers heading from the Italian Loggia air base to the refineries in Ostrava and Bohumín and the railway…