The recollections of S/Ldr Jiří Hartman DFC of his escape from German occupied Czechoslovakia to Poland on 15 June 1939. ______________________________________________________________ As the Nazis became more and more oppressive; arresting […]
The recollections of an unknown Czechoslovak airman. The Czechoslovak airmen signed on with the French Foreign Legion at Marseille. At their training camp things were very hard for them. Each […]
jeden z hrstky * 14.12.1912, Dalovice. † 21.10.1991, London, UK. The Early Years : Ranná léta : Miloslav Jan Mansfeld was born on 14 December 1912 in Dalovice, a village […]
Karel Šeda – Moje cesta do války. The German occupation of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939, meant that the Bohemia and Moravia regions of the country were now the Reich […]
An English/Czech biography for him is here. Jeho českou a anglickou biografii najdete zde.
Tribute to the Czech cloverleaf. Pocta Českému čtyřlístku. On 4 September 1939, the Czechoslovak Aviation unit, was formed at Puławy Gora airfield, Poland and commanded by Captain Bohumil Liška. The […]
Jeden z hrstky * 18.06.1911, Ústí nad Labem. † 10.10.1940, . Ellesmere Point, UK. Pre WW2: Před druhou světovou válkou: Otto Hanzlíček was born on 18 June 1911 at Ústí […]
jeden z hrstky * 11.10.1914. Petřvald. † 10.10.40. Wareham, UK. Pre WW2: Před 2. světovou válkou: Jaroslav Hlaváč was born 11 October 1914 at Petřvald, a village, about 10 km […]
Jeden z hrstky * 11.02.1914, Břuchotín, Olomouc. † 26.09.1940, Isle of Wight, UK. Pre WW2: Před 2. svět. válkou: Vladimír Horský was born 11 February 1914 at Břuchotín, a village […]
On 2 September 2019, the “Kraków, 30 kwietnia 1939” exhibition, about the creation of the Czechoslovak Legion in Poland in 1939, was opened at the Muzeum Sił Powietrznych w Dęblinie, […]
