Royal Air Force

Veterans

Konrád Dubský, Scotland. 1945

Konrád Dubský

* 1916 †︎ unknown

French Foreign Legion, Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, Royal Air Force, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign

František Elston (Epstein)

* 1922 †︎ 2005

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Holocaust, Royal Air Force, Winton’s Children and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

František Fajtl

František Fajtl

* 1912 †︎ 2006

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Royal Air Force, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954) and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Colonel Jaromír Foretník

* 1914 †︎ 2006

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Imrich Gablech

Imrich Gablech

* 1915 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, western front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Royal Air Force, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

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Petr Gibian

* 1922 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain

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Jiří Grant

* 1920 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, western front, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Stanislav Hlučka in 1940

Stanislav Hlučka

* 1919 †︎ 2008

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války and 12 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain and 9 more anniversaries

Pavel Höchsmann wearing the uniform of the Auxiliary Technical Batallions.

Pavel Höchsmann

* 1927

People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Royal Air Force, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 6 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Jaroslav Hofrichter in 1944

Jaroslav Hofrichter

* 1920 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, western front, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

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