Forgotten Heroes – Dark Blue World
When Otto Smik’s body was finally sent home to be buried in Slovakia in 1994, he was accorded a hero’s return – unlike so many other Czechoslovakian airmen who flew […]
Brothers in Arms Exhibition – RAF Museum, London
. . Airmen of Poland and Czechoslovakia in the Battle of Britain & Beyond. An exhibition at the RAF Museum, Hendon, London. 16 September 2011 – 4 March 2012 More […]
Josef Frantisek remembered 2011
. Josef František The highest scoring RAF pilot in the Battle of Britain with 17 Luftwaffe aircraft shot down in 28 days and the distinction of being the first foreign […]
Frantisek Perina remembered
Vzpominka na Františka Peřinu On 9 April 2011 the village of Morkůvky, nr Brno in the Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, commemorated the 100th Anniversary of the birth its […]
Frantisek Perina
General of the Skies Generál nebe * 18 April 1911, Morkůvky. † 6 May 2006, Czech Republic The Early Years: František Peřina was born 8 April 1911 in the village […]
Karel Kuttelwascher – One of the Few
Jeden z hrstky * 23.09.1916, Svatý Kříž. † 17.08.1959, St Austell, UK. The most successful Czechoslovak fighter pilot of WW2. Nejúspěšnější československý pilot 2. svět. války. The Early Years: Raná […]
Forgotten Czechoslovak Airmen
Zapomenutí českoslovenští letci Zapomněli na československé zahraniční letce The 70th Anniversary to commemorate the Battle of Britain was held on 10 July 2010 at the National Battle of Britain Memorial, […]
Josef Frantisek remembered
Josef František * 7 October 1914 † 8 October 1940 Dne 8. října 2010 uplynulo 70. let od tragické smrti Josefa Františka při letecké nehodě. The 8 October is the […]
Night Hawk
Night Hawk The biography of Flight Lieutenant Karel Kuttelwascher DFC and Bar, the RAF’s greatest night intruder ace by Roger Darlington , Written by the son-in-law he never knew this […]
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 […]
