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Dobrý deň, zháňam informácie ( fotky, posobenie v RAF, bojové lety atď. ) o našom rodákovi Jozefovi Remenárovi. Ďakujem za akékoľvek informácie.
[Moderators translation:
Hello, I am looking for information (photos, activities RAF sorties etc.) about our native Joseph Remenár. Thank you for any information.]
What to say - just thank you, great job!
More pics of Karel Petr Sláma, F/Lt, 313 Sq available in case of your interest.
Michal Sláma
I am grateful to have found this website by accident. The history of our pilots in Britain is among the brightest spots of our past, if not the brightest, and I eagerly follow any resource addressing it. I personally feel this history to be our strongest tie towards the civilized, brave, fair and forward looking west, as opposed to the brutal, nihilistic and degrading east. The latest developments in Crimea show that we might be not too far from a situation when our own political survival might be at stake again. And we will need to see that there have been many people among us before who made the right choices despite all the odds. Making right choices is hugely unpopular now among the majority of our population. Perhaps the communist lunacy of our past took its toll to a terrible extent.
I thank the administrators of this web and of course I thank the more so to the czechoslovak pilots of the Battle of Britain, who in fact keep saving me even today, whenever I have doubts whether the current state of our nation should make me feel ashamed to be Czech.
Hello:
this comment is unrelated to this topic. I am the Canadian who built for his friend as exact a replica (1/48 scale) of his father P/O Zdenek Munzar's Liberator PP D EV955 as I could. If there is an interest in photographs of work in progress and/or the completed aircraft, please let me know.
Gilles Pepin
Našel jsem zde nacionále svého otce, díky za Vaší práci, jsem ochoten poskytnout písemnosti, které vlastním. Díky Honza TRubáček
[Moderators translation:
I found here the information about my father, I am prepared/willing to supply the documents in my possession.]
Thank you for creating this site. It has given me a great insight into what my Grandfather Otakar Cerny struggled through during the war. I would never have known so much about his journey as part of the 311 Bomber Squadron, and the resultant pow camp escapes that he and Josef Bryks took part in. Reading these accounts makes me very proud of my Grandfather's and his countrymen's bravery in their defiance against the enemy. Thank you for making this information available, without such sources their plight is all too easily forgotten.
Thank you very much for the excellent website. I discovered it while looking for the details of Cpt. Eduard Prchal's story. You have the best presentation of it I was able to found. I'll return to your website to learn more on the bravery of Czechoslovak RAF pilots in the WW2.
Thank you for this website. My Grandfather, F/lt Jindrich Vnoucek (deceased January 1997) was a Navigator in 311 Czechoslovak squadron and also a fellow comrade with whom he escaped from Czechoslovakia with in 1938 and 1948 F/lt Josef Richter was also in 311 Squadron. Any information anyone has about these two guys I would love to hear.
Thank you
What an excellent website! It is very good to see the memory of these brave and intrepid persons preserved for posterity. Congratulations!
Absolutely FIRST CLASS site. Both Liz and myself have proud and wonderful memories of all the RAF-Czechoskovakian chaps at the West Hampstead club, as well of those of 111(F) Squadron who were unable to leave at the time of the 1948 putsch, but who we regularly corresponded with until meeting them back in UK in 1990 for the 50th Battle of Britain Anniversary - and again in Prague in 1991 with all global others at the superb September reconciliation ceremonies. Totally unforgettable memories !
Toto jsou výborné stránky! Blahopřeji a děkuji. Jen tak dál!
[Moderators translation:
These are excellent pages. My congratulations and thanks. The more the better! ]
Thank you for mentioning the Tangmere Museum. This is the airfield from where my father, Karel Kuttelwascher, flew. Because of the "kills" he achieved he was awarded the DFC and Bar in 1942 and was the highest scoring night intruder pilot and the highest scoring Czechoslovak pilot of WW11. My twin sister, Mari, and I are extremely proud of him.
Thank you very much for your very admirable biography of PILOT JOSEF BRYKS. It follows well the Czech television video documentary from 2007. His life is a continuing inspiration to all of us in the 21st century. He truly was a fellow countryman born of character. May he rest in peace with honor forever in the hearts of his many new and old admirers !
Extremely interesting to me personally as my last name is Dolezal and my father worked for the Bata organisation starting in Zlin, India and the USA, and I am a corporate pilot today. I know a lot of the Bata history but not so much of the aviation part. Very fascinating biography of Oldrich Dolezal. I know many stories of the like of Czechs escaping their homeland and some never able to return. I look forward to my first visit to the Czech republic soon having only a few yaers ago met some of my Czech relatives from Zlin and Frystak.
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Thank you for a beautiful site. My late Grandfather, Miroslav Kopecky was a Czech pilot, Squadron 310 and reading all these stories is fascinating. Best wishes.
Hallo,
My grandfather brother Anton Vanko is buried together with another two Czechoslovak pilots in parts of Britain pilots. Do you know reason, why he was buried just there and not in Czechoslovak part of the cemetery?
I have visited Brookwood several times, I would like to thank to the cemetery management and staff, the environment is excellent there. At the same time thank very much to you for management of this web site!
Best regards
Karol Vanko
Dobrý deň,
brat môjho starého otca Anton Vanko je pochovaný spolu s ďalšími dvoma Čechoslovákmi v časti anglických pilotov. Neviete prosím dôvod, prečo je pochovaný práve tam a nie v československej časti?
Cintorín Brookwood som navštívil už niekoľko krát, môžem vyjadriť svoje úprimné poďakovanie správcovi cintorína za to, ako sa o toto pamätné miesto stará. Taktiež vyjadrujem svoju vďaku aj Vám za správu tejto web stránky!
S pozdravom
Karol Vanko, Trenčín, Slovensko
Thank you for the info. & links.
Great site.
Hi. I've really enjoyed browsing this site; it's a credit to the brave men to whom it is dedicated, and to the loyal and devoted family members who have created it, researched it and preserved the memory.
Vaclav Bergman, a pilot in 310 squadron during the Battle of Britain and then in 1944 commander of 313 squadron, was my uncle, and a great example of the fortitude, fighting spirit and humanity of these men.
According to Czech archival sources (crash investigation protocols), there was no training mission but an unauthorised test flight and the reason of crash was, unfortunately, flying indiscipline of your uncle (air combat maneuvers /tonneau/ at very low altitude: when his plane began to lose altitude and speed, apparently your uncle opened the throttle too sharply and pulled his pilot stick back (in order to increase speed and altitude). Due to very sharp opening the throttle, the left engine lost its power (it became flooded with fuel) and the right one (running at full power on the contrary) overturned the plane to its uncontrolled fall from about 30 m of hight level to the ground. After falldown, the plane burst into flames and burnt completely (two-member-crew /the other crew member was ppor. MUDr. František VOTRUBA as an observer/ had no chance to escape).
Your uncle is burried at the military cementry in Olomouc (see
http://www.vojenskyhrbitov-cernovir.estranky.cz/fotoalbum/identifikace-hrobu/nektere-zachovane-hroby/vratislav-liska.html) and his picture from war time can be seen at
http://www.vojenskyhrbitov-cernovir.estranky.cz/fotoalbum/kpt.-vratislav-liska/kpt.-liska-vratislav-.html
Musim podekovat za skvelou praci.
Babicka pred valkou chodila s Karlem Danihelkou, Wellington KX-A Z1167, bohuzel zemrel pri naletu nad Emden.
Zajimam se o historii a tak sem i na vasich strankach. jeste jednou dik.
My birth father Frantisek Fencl served in the 311 Czech squadron of the RAF before his death in 1943. We would really love to find out more about his family; his parents were Josef and Ludmila (nee Vimrova) Fencl. He was born in Dominikalni Paseky, and was the forth child, having 3 older sisters (Maria, Anna and Bozena ). They moved to Namencka Paseky, today Kardave.
I would love to find out more about the family is anyone knows anything.
Thank you.
I would like to thank you VERY MUCH for establishing and maintaining this website, commemorating the heroism of the Czech and Slovak men and women during the WW2.
Thank you for this site.
I have very little other info. about my father Sgt. Rolf Spitzer (initially enrolled in the Czechoslovak Army in Exile after failing to find his family in Brno (transported to the death-camps) and then fleeing Vienna where he was studying Law and Political Science, he reached England. He then joined the Czechoslovak Army in Exile and subsequently one of the C-S squadrons of the R.A.F.
Anyone with any pictures or info., especially on ground-crew, please let me know.
I cannot get anything out of the RAF, unfortunately. Thanks so much.
Nigel Spitzer-Brummel
Thank you for this wonderful website. My father was F/O Josef Baus. He escaped in 1949 and thereafter lived and died in South Africa always and first a great Czech at heart. He would be so moved by the monument Na Klarove for the reason of Pravda Vitezi alone and that the wrong has been made right. Dekuju!
Die Wahrheit /wird siegen) siegt, der Ausspruch Masaryks, wird von seinem
Schlußsatz seiner Ansprache beim Ausrufen der Tschechoslowakei im Oktober 1918 lautete: Ruhe bewahren, geht nach Hause und stehlt nicht!
Gewußt?
Ein Deutschösterreicher südmährischer Herkunft!
Viele Tschechen bzw. Mährer hatten deutsche Namen, umgekehrt genauso,
Baus ist ein Beispiel, Prochaska bei Sudetendeutschen das andere, ned wohr?
Remembering Jan Masat, air traffic controller RAF West Raynham. A gentleman & great bloke.
I’ve often looked online for Jan Masat but this is the first time I’ve uncovered his name. I was a spotty 18 year old airman in 1965 on my first tour in ATC at RAF West Raynham and Jan was my Sergeant. I well remember his beret was always askew and he smoked roll up cigarettes, he had a wonderful gentle smile and at the time drove a Beetle car.
In later years I went on to become a commissioned controller and served at RAF West Drayton; I was delighted to meet Jan again. He’d retired from the Airforce and was working for NATS as an assistant, still with his dead roll-up in his mouth.
It was a privilege to have known him. Wish I knew about his history.
My father, John Alois Kravec, was a pilot with the 310 Squadron. I have a copy of his flight logbook and many pictures if anyone is interested.
Dear Mr. Kravec, I am History student from Slovakia, I am doing school projekt about your father John Alois Kravec, would you be so kind to contact me. Thank you very much in advance.
Paula
Hi Hank.
I would be very interested in a copy of the log book as I reearch Hurricane and Spitfire pilots in detail using log books and unit diaries.
Kind regards
John Engelsted
Denmark
Hello Henk.
I would be very interested in a copy of your father’s log book for my research into Hurricane and Spitfire pilots.
Kind regards
John Engelsted
Denmark
My late father Miklos Mayer (Mikuláš Majer) was a mechanic in 311 squadron. He told us little about his life during the war. I am trying to find out a bit more – any contact or information would be great.
Peter Mayer
Děkuji za tyto stránky. Skvělá práce!
Wonderful website and was great to find my uncle William Lesile Frost mentioned in the British points from East Tilbury Bata factory
I feel so proud and privileged to have just witnessed “The Loch Doon” Aircraft being unveiled at the Dumfries Aviation Museum, and what a brilliant job they have made of bringing this Aircraft back to it’s former self, I have to say, the people involved in restoring it have done not only the Aircraft proud, but Lt. Frantisek Hekl proud as well, his Spitfire now stands on it’s wheels again
Skvele zpracovane stranky! Diky!
This is a wonderful website. My great uncle was Czech. I served in the RAF with Alois Hochmal and Vaclav Raba. Two wonderful men. I also knew Joe Bernat. Alois was like a father to me. Everyone praises the Poles for their contribution but few Czechoslovaks are mentioned.
I am the daughter of my late father, Frantisek J Hradil a crew member of 311 sq he was a mechanic also gunner and radar operator – I have been searching for his war record for many years. Or indeed for any photograph’s that may be available as he had but a few in his possession.
I am a docent at the Flying Heritage Collection in Everett, Washington State, USA. Here we have a Spitfire Mk. VC (5c) (AR614) that was flown by Flying Officer Tomas Vybiral of the 312 Squadron, RAF. It is flown every summer and kept in pristine condition. It can also be seen on the FHC website at http://www.flyingheritage.com
I am an American born just at the end of WWII. I collect and exhibit material by Vojtěch Kubašta and have acquired an ex libris card designed by Kubašta for Ilja Hruśák who I’ve just learned was in the 311 RAF Squadron. This article has been most helpful in my understanding the sacrifice of these brave Czech fliers. In my exhibits of Kubašta’s work, I stress the times in which this artist worked, first under the Nazis followed by the Soviets. He died in 1992 never to live in a free CR.
I would love to know more about this brave airman.
http://www.popuplady.com
http://www.ncsml.org/exhibits/pop-ups-from-prague/
I think you are looking at the artist but read Red Sky at Night by Jo Capka to give you a “feel” for those men. I knew him an what a pleasure to know gentle kind and generous.
Looking for relative/decendants of.
Federman Hanus (Jhon George), Flight Lt.,(later colonel in the R. A. F.
married to Margaret-Lillian.
Brother to Eva Federman married to the Zdaneck familly ( moved to the U.S.A in late 1947).
Brother of Herbert (Shmuel) Federman -killed in action in 1943 in the Greek Islands.
Son of Ziegfried and Ellinor Federman.
My late father, recently deceised was a friend of Herbert(Shmuel) Federman and was with him up until he fell in battle.
Any contact or information will be welcome/
Ron Javin
I can give you informations about the life of Federman´s family in Pilsen before WWII – I am an archivist and I am looking for the stories of Pilsen pre-war boy scouts who joined the Czechoslovak foreign army after 1939 and fought for the freedom of their country. And I would be very happy to know a bit more about the war story of Herbert Federmann – you wrote that he served with your late father in the Mediterranean (Greek Islands) – it means Herbert served in British army, not in Czechoslovak exile troops….?