Graves in Belgium
This article seen on the www.fcafa.wordpress.com website gives not only a picture of three gravestones of the Cz. airmen laid to rest in the three different Belgian cemeteries.
You can find here also the names of :
- F/O Jiri Machacek who has no known grave and that reason for his name can be found in the
Runnymede Memorial. He met his death on July 8, 1941 while serving with the British No 145 Sqn.
- Cpt Jindrich Beran who lost his life as the first Cz. airmen after the German attack had begun on May
10,1940. Serving with the No Group de Chasse III/3, he was killed in action on the following day near
a Belgian village of Wetteren. His wingman Joe Stehlik survived.
He and Corporal Chef Josef Stehlik piloting obsolete MS 406 fighter planes and three pilots of the No
GCIII/1 were outnumbered by ten or twelve twin-engined Bf 110s. Jindrich was hit by a 20mm cannon
shell on his head-on run and crashed in a forest. He was buried on May 14, 1940 an exhumed in
1950. Brought to Czechoslovakia, he found his final resting place in his native village of Rozna pod
Pernstejnem. More in a booklet " Yoseph Stehlik - a Sure Shot Hunter" by the Kolesa Publ
The article HERE