Runnymede
During World War 2, 116,000 men and women, serving in the Royal Air Force or Commonwealth Air Forces, lost their lives and in many cases their graves are unknown. They […]
312 Czechoslovak Squadron RAF
70th Anniversary 5th September 2010 the 70th Anniversary of the formation of 312 Squadron, the 2nd Czechoslovak fighter Squadron in the Royal Air Force
Challenge in the Air – the autobiography of Sqd/Ldr Miroslav Liskutin
. . Challenge in the Air A Spitfire pilot remembers., by Sqd/Ldr M. A. Liškutin DFC, AFC . .… Miroslav Liškutin was just completing his flying training when the Nazis invaded […]
Otto Smik
. * 20.01.1922,Boržom, Georgia. † 28.11.1944, Zwolle, Holland. The Early Years: Raná léta: Otto was born on 20 January 1922 in Caucasus, a Georgian Spa town in Boržom near Tiflis […]
Victims of Communism
Oběti komunismu The Yalta Conference of February 1945, was a meeting between the wartime heads of government to discuss the post-war reorganization of Europe. Attending the meeting were Winston Churchill, […]
Czechs in the RAF
. .. Czechs in the RAF by Zdenek Hurt . . .. . . When the Nazi forces took Czechoslovakia in March 1939 many of the Czech airmen fled […]
Vickers Supermarine Spitfire
History: The Spitfire was the inspired design by Reginald J Mitchell, a young engineer who completed his apprenticeship in a Stoke-on-Trent locomotive works, in search of the stimulation offered […]
Czechoslovak pilots in the Battle of Britain
Českoslovenští letci v Bitvě o Velkou Británii Following the German defeat of France in 1940, Hitler planned to invade Great Britain and the prelude to this invasion – Operation Sealion […]
Hawker Hurricane
History: The Hurricane was the mainstay fighter aircraft of RAF Fighter Command in the early part of World War 2 and in the Battle of Britain were to account […]
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Name Rank Unit Unit Role GABLECH Imrich P/O RAF North Weald Pilot,Flying Control GABORKO Štefan LAC 311 Cook GABRIEL † Alois F/Lt 311 Navigator GALIA Vlastimil Cpl 312 Armourer GÄRTNER […]
