Second World War veterans commemorated WWII battle

Czechoslovak fighter pilots commemorated on Saturday the 63rd anniversary of an air combat in the region of Jindrichuv Hradec in south Bohemia. The battle between the Ally forces and German Luftwaffe, which took place on the 24th of August 1944, was one of the biggest Second World War conflicts to take place in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Some 20 war veterans with their wives and widows of the deceased pilots attended the event, which took place for the 14th time this year.