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No I Panel Air Force of the Czech - Slovak Republic
- The members of our Czechoslovak team who reached front places in the Air Meeting of Aerobatics in Zurich in July 1937 - / L to R / W/O Snobl, S/Ldr. Hess, P/O Hlado, Sgt Perina [ Shnobl, Haess, Hladdyo, Paerzhinna]
- An flying formation belonging to the 1st Regiment - a multiple S328 biplane
- These were used for observation duties over the border - Avia B 534 of Police Air Patrol
- Only three prototypes of this plane were built until occupation - Avia B 35
- During the Second Mobilization in September 1938 - S 328 in Hradec Kralove
- The plane of the 5th Regiment - An Aero Ab 101 light bomber
- Camoflaged by spruce trees on a detached field base - Avia B 534
- Bomber crews - a Bloch MB 200
- Fighters of the Flight 32 of the 1st Air Regiment - Avia B 534s in Hradec Kralove
- Taken at the time of the Second Alert - an Avia B 71 bomber
- Camouflaged in readiness in East Slovakia - an Avia B 534 in September 1938
- Ready for action snapped during the Second Mobilization
No II Panel Alert
13. The Second Mobilization - Sept 23,1938
14. Betrayed by France and Britain - Munich 1938
15. Despite all the Hitler`s proclamations about so-called Sudeten Border Region being
his last claim, he occupied the rump ie. rest of Bohemia and Moravia on Mar 15, 1939
16. German troops were followed by the Secret State Police called by Czechs „Gestapo"
17. We dare to put the fire out and build the new free Czechoslovakia on the fire scene
Let`s fight!
18. The nation of Czechs did not hesitate to sacrify everything for its army.
In the 30s Czech and Moravian lands used to be Europe`s Armory.
19. Czech soldiers were armed with the best products made in our arms factories.
20. There were four Czechoslovak armies totalling the manpower over 1.5 million under
arms eager to defend their homeland.
No III Panel Czechoslovak Air Force in the so called Second Republic Period
NOTE : ie. from Oct. 1, 1938 to March 14, 1939
21. Aircraft of the Flight 43 of the 4th Air Regiment - Avia B 534s at the Kbely air base
22. Heavy bomber crew - Marcel Bloch [Mursael Block]MB 200
23. During refuelling in the airfield - Avia B 534
24. At Uzhorod AF autumn 1938 -an Avia B 534 fighter
25. Shot through behind the pilot cockpit after conflict with a Hungarian pilot on Nov.1,1938
26. Shepherd idyll of Sq. 31 in Eastern Slovakia
27. Another plane attacked by a Hungarian pilot - its radiator got the hit
No IV Panel Occupation of the Czech and Moravian Lands
28. Order to Czechs issued on March 15, 1939 in a bad language
29. The Great War German Fighter Ace General Ernst Udet inspecting occupied Czech
air bases
30. A German soldier guards Czechoslovak aircraft at the Hradec Kralove air base
31. Used by Luftwaffe for liasion duties - an Aero A 304 twin engined bomber
32. Also civilian airplanes in private hands had to carry humiliating swastikas - Avia B 11
33. Czech bomber in German hands - Avia Fokker
34. Modified by the Avia factory for target moving duties - Avia B 71
35. Operating on Eastern front and used by Luftwaffe for glider towing - Avia B 534
36. This medium bonber was tested by Germans and finally scrapped - Avia B 158
37. Used by Luftwaffe Flying School in Olomouc - Letov S 328
38. German pilot in a cockpit of the Czechoslovak Be 51 touring plane.
39. An Avia B-122 aerobatic biplane carries badge of the Olomouc Flying School
No V Panel Czechoslovak airmen in Poland
40. A reserve passport issued to an airmen refugee by the Czech Legation in Krakow
41. Interned after successful crossing the Czech - Polish border at the Tesin Polish
Police Station - July 1939
42. Presentation of Czechoslovak airmen. Standing in the middle P/O Frantisek Behal
[Frantyishek Byehhall] - Male Bronowice camp
43. A PZL 7A fighter of the Central Flying School at Deblin, flown by Czech pilots too
44. Flown by Czech airmen in Deblin and within fields units -a Potez observation plane
45. Four Czechoslovak pilots who attacked German positions on training planes
L above Matej Pavlovic below Joseph Balejka, R above Wilhelm Koszarz,
below Josef Frantisek [Joseph Frantyishaek]
NOTE :Fighter Ace Sgt. Josef Frantisek served with 303 Polish Fighter Squadron during
Battle of Britain and his and Kosar`s graves are near each other at the Northwood Hill
Cem NW London - Borough of Hillington - see more at our Documentary Film
about The Czech Airmen Association`s visit to UK incl. this cemetery in June 2004 .
46. The first three Czechoslovak airmen who lost their lives in WWII- P/O Stepan Kurka
[Shtyeppahn Koorka]
47. They were killed during a Luftwaffe bomber attack on the Deblin aerodrome
- P/O Zdenek Rous [Zdaennyeck Rows]
48. on Sep 2, 1939 - P/O Ondrej Sandor [Ondrey Shahndor]
49. Czechoslovak airmen seen shortly before their departure to France at the Male Bronowice
Camp - late July 1939
50. A big group of Czechoslovak airmen left for France aboard the Chrobry ship
- Gdynia harbor
51. Czechoslovak non-commissioned officers aboard towards Boulogne
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