Kuhn Josef DFM
* 21.12.1914, Bílá Třemešná. † 04.10.1945, Bučovice. The Early Years Josef Kuhn was born on 21 December 1914 at Bílá Třemešná, a small village near Dvůr Králové , some 100km North-East from […]
Donation Appeal 2025
PROSBA O PŘÍSPĚVĚK 2025 FCAFA ltd, the Free Czechoslovak Air Force Associates ltd., was founded in May 2010, and through our online resource – http://www.fcafa.com – we provide information about […]
Jan Truhlář – One of the Few
* 11.12.1914, Stádlec. † 25.10.1988, Brno. Pre WW2: Jan Truhlář was born on 11 December 1914, at Stádlec near Tábor, a town in Czechoslovakia, 80km South of Prague. He was […]
František Burda – One of the Few
* 21.01.1915, Osičky. † 23.02.1988, Brno. Pre WW2: František Burda was born in Osičky, a small village near Hradec Králové and Parducice, Czechoslovakia, on 21 January 1915. He was the […]
Josef Scerba
Josef Ščerba 311.perutě palubní střelec / radista …………….* 11.03.1917, Orlová. …………….† 16.01.2000, Prague. Josef Ščerba se narodil 11. března 1917 v Orlové, do rodiny hostinského. Už v roce 1920 se […]
Pametni deska Pavlu Svobodovi
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Escapes of Karel Stastny
Karel Šťastný was a 311 (Czechoslovak) Sqn pilot who was born at Hošťálková, Czechoslovakia on 3 August 1918. Pre-WW2 he was a pilot, at the rank of Kapitan, in the […]
Thank you Milena
Děkujeme, Mileno Whilst on a visit to Poland, in 2019, for the 75th anniversary of the Great Escape, from Stalag Luft III Prisoner of War camp at Żagań, Milena Kolaříková […]
Czech the Great Escape
The night of 24/25 March 1944 saw the most audacious Prisoner of War (PoW) escapes take place from Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luft or Permanent Camps for Airmen) at Sagan, […]
An RAF airman’s life in Communist Czechoslovakia
Život příslušníka RAF v době komunismu Major General Alois Šiška, my late father, would have celebrated his hundredth birthday on 15th May 2014. His wartime story is well known because […]
