Current Affairs Charles Havlat: The last GI killed in action, a Czech-American, died in Bohemia after the European cease-fire

09-05-2005 14:17 | Brian Kenety

Charles Havlat is thought to be the very last American soldier killed in action in the European operations of World War II. The son of Czech immigrants, he took a bullet in the head while on patrol in southern Bohemia; shot by German soldiers who were unaware that a ceasefire had been declared and whose commander later apologised. Brian Kenety reports.

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