1940 - The Battle of France

1940

Antonín Špaček

* 1917 †︎ 2007

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France and 5 more anniversaries

Miroslav Štandera, Royal Air Force

Brigadier General (ret.) Miroslav Štandera

* 1918 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France and 1 more anniversaries

Václav Straka, 1944, Chomondeley

Václav Straka

* 1914 †︎ 2011

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Journalist, Charter 77 signatory, Veteran of WW2, western front

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk and 3 more anniversaries

Benes_Cholmondeley_leto_1940.jpg (historic)

Colonel Václav Strupek

* 1918

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Emigrant, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka

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František Švrček

* 1912 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, western front, International Brigadiers

1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 20. 7. 1936 - 1. 9. 1939 - civil war in Spain

Witness in military uniform, 1940s

generálmajor Ing. Ignác Syrovátka

* 1914 †︎ 1998

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Déclassé, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii and 9 more categories

1940 - The Battle of France, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 6 more anniversaries

Karel Szatan

* 1926

Emigrant, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

in french foreigner legion in the uniform from the first world war

Colonel (ret.) František Tuček

* 1918 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance, Relative of a political prisoner

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Sisters Anna (left) and Jindřiška Pribylová (circa 1942), in Sallaumines, France

Anna Tybitanclová

* 1939

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Repatriated, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1940 - The Battle of France, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Petr Uruba

Colonel (ret.) Petr Uruba

* 1916 †︎ 2009

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain

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