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2015-11-04

The oldest Cz RAF veteran - Col Imrich Gablech - becomes a centenarian today.

Hardly any one can imagine living conditions in a Soviet Gulag labour camp. He was interned there from the spring  1940 to the summer  1941 together with the Polish men in arms. Imrich lost his eyesight  four times. It was regained thanks to a Polish doctor who succeeded in getting fish fat for Gablech. The latter survived due to the German attack on the USSR on June 22, 1941. That reason for were the Polish internees including Gablech brought to the area near Moscow. An opportunity to join the Red army and fight against Hitler was offered to them there.

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          On Nov 7 at 1300 hrs a plaque dedicated to four CZ RAF airmen and one member of Cz ground staff is to be unveiled at the Hanacke Square in the town of Kromeriz.  Two of them are mentioned in the above mentioned text. An AG Karel Valach flew together with Gablech to Poland from the Piestany AB, Slovakia on June 8, 1939. A pilot Zdenek Bachurek was made POW together with Imrich Gablech and Miroslav Havlicek by the Soviet troops in Poland six kilometres from the border on Romania on Sep 18, 1939.

The plaque will be sited on a wall of the former Garrison House. Both a discussion and private viewing are to follow.