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East Wreatham April 24, 1942
Seventy years ago the fist part of Cz No 311 Sqn´s history came to its end.
More information…Anniversary of Willy Kauders Funeral
One year ago an urn of navigator of the Czechoslovak No 311 Bomber Squadron was laid to rest on the Plot owned by the Free Czechoslovak Air Force Association, situated in the Brookwood Civilian Cem, but not far from their comrades in arms, who had been burried in the Cz Section of the Brookwood Military Cemetery in the 1942 - 1945 time frame.
More information…Lt Col Bohumil Rysanek Bob Aug 2, 2008
This second part of the Cz No 311 Bomber Sqn was posted on his death`s anniversary. It covers the time frame from Nov 4, 1943 to the date when the Ex-Serviceman`s ash scattered was.
More information…To the old pack comrades
This Letter of Remembrance of the Cz. Volunteer Group in Poland both in spring and summer 1939 belonged to Bohumil Rysanek. It was issued at the author`s - Zdenek Vrsovsky`s - expense in the Czechoslovak No 1 Inf Bat`s Camp on July 28, 1941 somewhere in England on the second anniversary of their leaving the Polish port of Gdynia aboard the Chrobry liner towards the Foreign Legion.
More information…Bohumil Rysanek Bob July 27, 1914
The first part of whereabouts of the Czechoslovak No 311 Bomber Sqn was posted on his birthday`s anniversary. As a member of the French Legion he was not allowed to leave it on Sept 3, 1939 after France had declared War on Germany like Cz airmen, but even in October.
More information…Lib 42-52479 on Aug 24, 1944
A black couloured B 24 flying mid one of BSs was downed by Luftwaffe fighters over the hamlet of Vlcice in South Bohemia this day. And not only this single ship.
More information…Black Friday
Not only all the seven ships of the 2nd BG`s No 20 BS were downed by Luftwaffe fighters on Aug 29, 1944.
More information…Austrian helicopter forced to land
An Austrian helicopter Augusta went astray on May 23, 1978 and only thanks to the Czechoslovak Air Force pilot`s common sense it was not shot down.
More information…The E 3000 Action
Courtesy of Mrs Navratilova, whose father Florian Jahoda served with the Czechoslovak No 311 Bomber Sqn. Her mother was detained at the Svatoborice Interment Camp and her uncle Alois Jahoda was held not only there, but also in one of Brno prisons. Mrs Navratilova resides at the village of Velky Tynec nr Olomouc, where wife of Gen. Karel Klapalek Olga Kosutova Klapalkova had been born.
More information…nr Svatoborice
An excerpt from a book by Olga Koshut Klapalek who was detained there with an older of her two daughters till Apr 14, 1945. They were driven to the Plana upon Luznice Interment Camp in South Bohemia and freed on May 5 This book was published in 1946.
More information…Brookwood Cemeteries
Only a few people in the Czech Republic have idea of the Czechoslovak Ex-Servicemen who are laid outside the chain link fence of the Brookwood Military Cemetery in the vicinity of their comrades in arms who had lost their lives in WWII and were laid within the Brookwood Military Cem, but not only in the Czechoslovak Section.
More information…Oct 6, 2006 Reunion
The Czechoslovak Army Day used to be celebrated on this day, the event was held on this date on purpose.
More information…Nov 9, 2007 Reunion
The intention was to hold the event on the Veteran`s Day, so on Friday Nov 9th.
More information…Cz Airmen in their Fight for Freedom
This article was posted also in English in order to raise public awareness of History of Czechoslovakia not only in schoolchildren.
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