Current Affairs Charles Havlat: The last GI killed in action, a Czech-American, died in Bohemia after the European cease-fire
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.
Havlat's brothers Adolph and Rudolph, in Wallern (Volary)
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