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col. Josef Balejka (1917-2004) – fighter pilot, a war hero
He was born 4.3.1917. Before she started war, he served in the czechoslovak air force, after the occupation he went into the service of the Polish air force. Poles it but the first time came back even with the other back to the protectorate. The border with Poland, therefore, had to move multiple times. After the fall, Poland, he fled together with others through Romania and Lebanon to France, where the Germans stood up again. In the fight against the occupying forces also continued in England. With 303. the Polish squadrons the RAF participated in combat operations until 1941, when he was wounded. After their downing and serious injury to three years devoted to the training of new pilots, than he was again called to the next battle years, this time to 311. czechoslovak bomber squadron. Belonged to the participants of the famous air battles about England. Shortly after the war he returned to home, after February 1948, however, the emigrated and the country is finally back up after 1989. Abroad started as a bus driver, as a civilian pilot, he flew several years in South America. But because he had a head full of ideas, founded in Manchester own engineering firm, the north star, through which he realized a number of their original inventions. In the old country, returned to the pension, shortly after 1989, he moved to the native Wallachian Hat, where he lived until his death 7.7. 2004..
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Svůj životní příběh zpracoval literárně v knize nazvané : Pod ochranou Panny Marie Svatohostýnské, kterou v II. vydání vydalo nakladatelství "Lípa" - A.J.Rychlík, Vizovice v roce 1995.
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Josef Balejka: Under the protection of the Virgin Mary Svatohostýnské http://lipa-knihy.ic.cz
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Memories of the regiment., that for 2. world war fought in the English air force. After all the time to protect the locket of the Virgin Mary Svatohostýnské, which gave him the mother. The author has a lot of evidence.
Kratochvílovi M. and J.: Josef Balejka - wallachian knight of heaven http://www.cerm.cz
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non-fiction publications on the Czech war airmen colonel Josef Balejkovi. A native of Wallachian Hat he graduated from training in the Masaryk aviation school in Uzhgorod, signed up for military service in Slovakia and from there he journeyed to Prague and Prostejov. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the nazis and the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia fled to Poland, where with a trio of airmen William Košařem, Matěj Pavlovičem and Joseph Francis created the famed "Bohemian clover", and subsequently to France and Great Britain. As the only one of the four survived the war. After the war he lived in the british isles, made a living as a transport pilot, bus driver and inventor. To his native homeland again came up in 1975, permanently here landed in November 1989. The publication is affected by the whole life of Joseph Balejky, the line of copyright text is supplemented by excerpts from the Balejkova war diary, statements and beliefs, loved ones persons, contemporary quotes, and an array of photos.
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