Monument commemorating WWII American bomber crash vandalised

A monument commemorating the crash of an American military aircraft in December 1944 in the town of Polná has been spray-painted with graffiti of a white letter Z, the symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Czech News Agency reports. Police are investigating the matter.

The memorial, an upright stone with a commemorative plaque and a depiction of an aeroplane, was unveiled in September 2019 in time for the 75th anniversary of the event. The American Liberator B-24 bomber crashed near Polná in the Vysočina Region while returning from combat action on December 16, 1944. All nine crew members survived the crash but ended up in German POW camps.