Post-war period
1945 – 1968

Brigadier General Přikryl, the first post-war commander of the Milovice garrison (on the right).

After the departure of the red army on November 1945, the restoration of the military training camp could begin. Brigadier General Vladimír Přikryl was named the commander of it. Inhabitants of evicted villages, that were taken during the occupation, spontaneously started returning to their homes. Despite the armies requirements to preserve the borders of the training ground, their property was returned to them.

Soldiers from the Milovice garrison also participated in the May Day parade in 1948.

The Milovice military training camp was officially put back into operation on June 2^nd, 1946. Schools for tank troops and infantry were located here. The Boží Dar airport was also restored. After February 1948, a number of officers who were inconvenient to the new regime were dismissed from the army. The commander of Boží Dar Airport, Lieutenant Colonel Trojáček, who served in the RAF during the war, flew to Bavaria in July 1948.

Oath at Boží Dar Airport in 1957.

During the post-war period, the construction of military and civilian facilities in Milovice began in full swing. Already in 1949, extensive reconstruction of the Boží Dar airport began, which included the construction of a 2,500-meter-long concrete runway. New roads, sewage systems, an open-air cinema and the Sochorův stadium were built in the camp. By 1957, the Balonka housing estate with sixty houses was built for professional soldiers.

Military band in the Restaurant at the Blue Star, Milovice 1964.

In the early 1950s, the Milovice Military Training Camp was renamed the Mladá Military Training Area (VVP Mladá). At the same time, the Military District of Mladá was established as an administrative unit of the military area. In the early 1960s, Milovice was the home base of the 13^th Tank Division, and the 47^th Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment was stationed at Boží Dar Airport. Before 1968, the Milovice garrison numbered more than 6,000 soldiers and officers.

Reconnaissance company garages, 1963.

Did you know that…? Haken Stadium in Milovice is named after the Czechoslovak politician Josef Haken (1880 – 1949), who was the chairman of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic from 1924 to 1926.