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Lieutenant, Flight Lieutenant Karel Balík
He obtained a civil pilot diploma in the West Bohemian Aviation Club Pilsen, 06.06.1922 - voluntarily enlisted in the 1st Air Regiment at the airport Praha-Kbely xx.03.1924 - in the rank of corporal moved as a teacher of flying, Učiliště pro letectvo Cheb xx.02.1925 - Squadron 31, Air Regiment 3 - MR Stefanika, Nitra 06.06.1925 - goes to the reserve as a sergeant 1927-1939 - flew as a captain at the Czechoslovak Airline until 1938 - completed 3 exercises and mobilization August 22, 1939 - fled to Poland 25.08.1939 - presented in Krakow August 29, 1939 - joined the Polish Air Force September 4, 1939 - a member of the first Czechoslovak air unit - Gora Pulawska Airport near Pulawe, later fell into Soviet captivity 24.10.1939-20.06.1940 - interned in Glinsk and Oranky June 26, 1940 - sailed from Odessa to Istanbul 27.10.1940 - arrived in Liverpool 11.11.1940 - accepted into the RAF as a flying and transport pilot 03.12.1940 - assigned to the 4th FPP in Kemble 15.03.1941 - transferred to the service unit of the 9th MU in Cosforde 03.11.1941 - RAF base in Prestwick, made 5 transallantic flights April 5, 1942 - the first Czechoslovak transatlantic flight with a stopover in Greenland together with Josef Hubáček and landed in Prestwick on April 10 1942, December 18, 1942 - transferred to the 24th Transport Squadron in Hendon where he was with breaks until the end of the war 18.02.1943 -14. March 1943 - Supply of besieged Malta March 1, 1946 - Air Force Lieutenant in Reserve January 8, 1946 - demobilized and joined as a captain at CSA During the inaugural flight Prague - Paris, when he returned, he came across an incorrectly marked excavation 05.03. 1946 - dies in the Prague-Břevnov Hospital
Source: VHÚ Prague, VHÚ Bratislava - Military personalities of the Czechoslovak resistance 1939 - 1945, Avis Prague - May 2005
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