Alan Dvorak 1916
Birthday anniversary of the our Patron is remembered by both the members of our CzAA´s Plumlov Branch and the family of his brother Tony.
Some notes from Sgt Alan Dvorak´s [ Dvorzhahk] Service diaries have been seen below the headline of ´No AD 02 Panel´ since Sep 22, 2011 - HERE Both his diaries of 1939 and 1940 are French made.
Info not made public yet :
Bogumin Miaesba - July 10, 1939
Krakow - July 21
Gdynia - July 28
Copenhagen - July 30
Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium - July 31, 1939
Boulogne, France - Aug 1
Paris - Aug 1 - Sep 24
Avord - Sep 24, 1939 - Jan 15, 1940
Chartres - Jan 15 - May 25
Cazaux - May 25 - June 17
Bordeaux - June 18, 1940
England - June 22, 1940 Duron
July 16 Gloucester - Uxbridge, July 17 Uxbridge - Duxford, July 18 Duxford, July 19 Duxford - Cosford, Aug 2 Cosford OATH of ALLEGIANCE, Aug 9 The President in the camp, Sep 21 departure of twenty nine fighter pilots, Sep 28 Cosford - Sutton Bridge, Oct 4 funeral of Sgt. Kurka, Oct 21 funeral of Sgt Chalupa Royston, Oct 25, 1940 Sutton Bridge -Duxford
Most often are mentioned deaths of his comrades or pay days sometimes even the amount. But the Bf 109 figher damaged by him on Feb 21, 1941 was NOT noted by him there.
His note dated to Nov 5, 1940 ´Gravesend Roche belly land´ denies a fabricted story read in some books on Cz airmen in England. Damaged by a JG 26´s Messerschmitt 109 over Kent on that day, Sgt. Dvorak should have managed it home. Gravesend Roche, Middlesex is situated on the Southern bank of the Thames. This station of No 11 Fighter Group was within the Biggin Hill Sector. A Sqn of Spitfires was stationed there during BoB.
Alan´s 1941 Services Diary was published by the Army Sport Control Board. One can find not only Athletic Records, Sport Grounds and Courts, Draw for Knock-out Tournaments as well as FA Cup Winners. Plent y of useful information is there too. Service Abbreviations, Signals, Standard tíme in various places of the World, Dimensions, Metric Weights and Measures, Morse Code, Knots, Bends and Hitches, Lightning-up Times, Diagrams of German Troop Carrier Planes, Poison Gas, First Aid Hints, Ranks - Comparative Table, Orders and Decorations, Movable Holidays 1941 - 1947, Royal Birthdays, Conventional Signs, Inter-servies, Employment Associations and Agencies,