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Anniversary of Grief

2014-01-02

The Wellington T 2553 KX-B was allotted to the Czechoslovak No 311 Bomber Sqn. Her co-pilot Sgt Josef Tomanek as well as her navigator F/O Joseph Mohr met their deaths just seventy two years ago. We post a text of recalls of the former´s sister. Put on paper by her grand-daughter.

His name is mentioned not only in the ´No response from KX-B´ Book by the ship´s skipper Sgt Alois Siska and on No 53 Panel of the Runnymede Memorial. It can be spotted by you on the KX-B Memorial situated on the Dutch coast nr Petten too. Three KX-B crewmen still alive and a dead Mohr had been washed ashore on the following day – on Jan 3, 1942. The KX-B Memorial was unveiled on Oct 17, 2012 under participance of not only No 222 Sqn  ´Siskova´s members of the Czech Air Force. The families of all the six KX-B´s  crewmen also took part in – see the Update of Oct 18, 2012 ´Unveiling KX-B Memorial´. Open the text on Joseph Tomanek HERE