Marta Košťálová

“I was also totally deployed." - "And where?" - "In Karlin, in CKD Dukla Karlín. And that was exactly, where I got a workbook, there in that drawer, and that was just the job. There were Siebely airplanes for the Siebely airliners. Well, it was terrible. It operated in three shifts. First, we had to learn what to do; how to rotate the sheets from this stainless steel sheet. Dural, I think, was named. Dural. Not alright, no. And there was one more, but I remember in a moment. And there I was until the war, yeah, when the end of the war came. I can show you the book, then I'll show it to you, I have it right here. “-“That must have been hard for you, that kind of job. “-“First of all, it was a bit strenuous. We did not pick up the hard stuff, it was lifted by the crane. But the work itself was tough. And there were six hundred air hammers there. Everything was riveted. These were rivets that were in the freezer, somewhere in the freezer, as they say today. In the freezer. And they had to be frozen. And you had to tie up that sheet of dirk on the base. You know. We had to drill those sheets on that base like this.”