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After Cz airmen named streets of Cerny most Prague Borough

The fact of having the streets re-named and named like this just within their Cerny most Borough has been appreciated by the locals. It is a tribute to the Cz Air Force personnel. The names of No I Cerny most housing estate´s fifteen streets had been approved by the Prague townhall already in 1981 in honour of Soviet, Finnish, French, Hungarian, German, Polish and Ruthanian communist and labour officials or an Estonian and a Turkish poets.

In 1991 those were renamed Anderle, Breicetl, Bryks, Dolezal, Dygryn, Fejfar, Frantisek, General Janousek, Jicha, Ocelka, Cpt. Stransky, Smik, Sebela, Srom, Vasatko and Vybiral. After 1997 the eleven streets were named after Arnost Valenta, Bobek, Himr, Hlado, Irving, Kucera, Manak, Kuttelwascher, Mansfeld, Mares and Seda. As the latest two of these twenty nine streets the one of Dobrovolny and Půda were named in the year of 2009. Since the second edition of the book three more streets have been erected opposite the ones of Půda and Dobrovolny, named after Kostrba, Truhlar and Rudolf Holeka. The first one - an ace fighter pilot - had served with the Austria- Hungarian Air Force during the Great War. The third had been the first military pilot of the Czech nationality in the Austrian-Hungarian Aeronatical Corps prior to WWI. Rudolf Holeka St was named on Jan 11, 2011. Kostrba one on Aug 18, 2009.

NOTE : Holeka St had been named after some one else several decades ago. Situated at the village of Klanovice nr Prague.

 
 

 Though the streets of Cigler and Pospichal are situated north of No I Cerny most housing estate, these ones were not named after a navigator and a pilot of No 311 Bomber Sqn´s under the communist regime, but in honour of two members of the anti-nazi resistence of the same surname. The former died while being arrested by the Gestapo Secret Police on April 7, 1942 and the latter was tortured to death in the Mauthausen concentration camp in the same year. The names of the streets mentioned above pay tribute not only to the airmen given attention in this book, because eight Dolezals, six Janouseks and Kuceras, four Maress, three Valentas, two Ocelkas, Fejfars, Sedas and Stranskys had served with the RAF in WWII.

About two hundred and fifty pcs of this remarkable book are still available at No 14 Prague Borough residing in Bros Vencliks St. It describes life of some members of not only all the four Cz squadrons and a Cz Night Fighters Flight, but also British Sqns, a Polish one and No 111 OTU deployed in the Bahamas. Circulation 1500 pcs, 80 pgs, including a map of Nos I+II Cerny most housing estates as well as the http://www.svazletcu.cz/images of all twenty nine street plates and a square. A4 size, paperback price 100 CZK.

Assistance of the staff of No 14 Prague – Cerny most Borough as well as their consent to use both the pictures is much appreciated.