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9th branch Airmen Association of the Czech Republic

Dokumentární Filmy

 

Vítězná křídla

Snaps of the " Wings of Victory "  Exhibition, owned by the Czech Airmen Association and being on display at the Castle of Plumlov, were turned into a film by George Kaspar and Stan Hajek. It took nearly half a year, caused above all by the lack of infos.
1/Because there were not any notes under dozens of the photographs, it was necessary to
   identify them first. That  reason for Jaroslav Popelka, Oldrich Rampula as well as a brother
   of  No 311 Sqn member Vaclav Knoll, son of    No 311 Sqn Workshop Chiefy Josef Sadlo
   were visited by me in person. Some RAF veterans such as Stanislav Hlucka,
   Frantisek Perina, Frank Elston and Josef Balejka have helped me.On the other hand , some
   others would not twist a finger though being asked for help by me.
2/As you can see, the snaps of Nos 311, 312 and 313 are mixed on the same panel. I had to
   sort them
3/ There was a need to put the snaps into chronological order.
4/ Sometimes adding a note was of some use.

 

Download Wings of Victoy part 1 (in Czech)   ]

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The total amount of 709 black white photographs of the  The „ Wings of Victory " Exhibition are regrouped into twenty parts as follows :

   
číslo
1 Air Force of the Czechoslovak Republic, Mobilization 1 - 20
2 Czechoslovak AF of the Second Republic, Occupied by the Nazis 21 - 38
3 In Poland, serving with French AF in N Africa and Syria  39 - 63
4 Training in France, on the French frontline    64 - 89
5 Fall of France, UK-bound, with Free French Air Force 90 - 116
6 Czechoslovak Nos 310 and 312 Fighter Sqns in Great Britain 117 - 129
7 Battle of Britain and Czechoslovak pilots 130 - 168
8 Cz. Sqns and Battle of Britain in the Aug-Sept 1940 period 169 - 206
9 Nos 310 and 311 Sqns 207 - 232
10 No 311 Czechoslovak Bomber Sqn  233 - 294
11 No 312 Fighter Sqn 295 - 320
12 Training of Czechoslovak airmen 321 - 370
13 No 313 Fighter Sqn, The Czechoslovak Fighter Wing 371 - 427
14 Czechoslovak pilots serving with No 68 and other British Sqns  428 - 467
15 With other RAF Squadrons  468 - 481
16 Czechoslovak No 1 Fighter Regiment and " Insurgent Flight "    482 - 526
17 No 1 Mixed Air Division on Eastern Front  527 - 581
18 RAF and USAAF over the Protectorate   582 - 649
19 End of Hostilities in Europe, Back to homeland 650 - 678
20 In peaceful garrisons, Memorials 679 - 709

Each photo has not only a subtitle, but is commented by me in Czech for the time frame of eight seconds. Videocassettes and CDs had been presented by us not only to RAF veterans Frantisek Perina, Stanislav Hlucka, Josef Balejka, Olga Zadrobilkova, but also with a text in English to the 481 Bomber Group airmen of No 15 USAAF Thomas Qualman, Hjalmar Johannson, Oliver Hommert as well as the Jagd Gruppe 300 CO Guenther Rall.
A DVD was sent to Imperial War Museum Interpretation and Research Officer Mr. Petr Murton 

     

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Czech Airmen Association in the U.K. 2004

In June 2004 George Kaspar and Stan Hajek paid  visit to several places in UK having something with Czechoslovak RAF members in common. We made into film again.
The total time of 180 min was shared into four parts comprising :

    min
1 Runnymede Memorial, Surrey    6
  Brookwood Cemetery 4
  Imperial War Museums Lambeth rd, Ln 27
  IWM HMS Belfast   13
     
2 IIWM Duxford, Camb  54
  No 1,2 and 3 Hangars  
  CD " Wings of Victory " is being given to Mr. Murton  
  Ops Room  
  No 4 and 5 Hangars  
  B 17 on the lawn 54
  American Air Museum  
  Land Warfare Museum  
     
3 RAF Museum Hendon, N London       
  Milstones of Flight Hall  
  P 51 D on a revolving pad   7
  Bomber Hall  
  Historic Hangars  
  Battle of Britain Hall  
     
4 Northwood Cemetery, NW Ln, Sgt. Joseph Frantisek`s grav 3
  St. Clement Danes Church 9

Lecturing at schools, all of them  are used by me.
The part four  had been shown to the RAF veterans who came to a Reunion held at the town of Prostejov on Oct 6, 2006. One of them was Sgt. Frantisek`s relative - Mr Rambousek from Brno. The part one was watched by the visitors coming to the Reunion held on Nov 9, 2007.
     

My friend Stan Hayek  had passed away on Nov 4, 2007 aged 63 and his funeral was held on the same day when visitors to the RAF families Reunion came to the DUHA = Rainbow Club
on November 9. One of them intended to buy the CD. Being told by me there would be  no chance any longer and what reason for, he uttered : “ So make it web public “
Taking poor awareness of this part of the Czechoslovakian history in our schoolkids into account, we made decision to pay tribute to our late member Stan like this.

 

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