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Fighter pilot of the Slovak air forces, participant in several combat deployments on the Eastern Front, a participant in the Slovak national uprising and a member of the 1st Czechoslovak Independent Fighter Air Regiment and later the 2nd Czechoslovak Fighter Air Regiment in the USSR. At the same time, a controversial figure in Slovak WWII history.

Paratrooper, commander of the four-man Spelter paratroop group, deployed in May 1944 on the territory of the Protectorate.

Biography of a czechoslovak soldier who, as a member of the Anthropoid parachute drop, took part in the assassination of the Reich Protector R. Heydrich.

Fighter ace of Slovak Air Arms.

He fought in the Little War, took part in the invasion of Poland and later fought on the Eastern Front, where he scored at least 12 kills. After the outbreak of the SNP, he joined the rebel side, where he was the first rebel pilot to achieve a kill when he shot down an unarmed Hungarian Ju 52/3m transport on 2 September 1944 with his Avia B.534. He also became the last fighter pilot in World War II to shoot down another aircraft in a biplane. After the suppression of the SNP by transport aircraft, he flew to the USSR.

Curriculum vitae of the second most successful fighter of Slovak air weapons.

Commander of Artillery Regiment 11

On 29 March 1943, Sergeant Jančovič and Sergeant Cyprich took off on an emergency flight against Soviet bombers. The battle carried over to the Sea of Azov, where the Slovak fighters were attacked by a group of LaGG-3 fighters. Jančovič's Bf 109 G-2 was badly damaged by enemy fire, with Jančovič also suffering a severe wound to his left leg. He managed to make it to the coast where he made an emergency landing,

Commander of the Battalion "Repašský".

Fighter ace of Slovak Air arms - 32 aerial victories

French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. He was the de facto leader of the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814 and again in 1815. Napoleon's political and cultural legacy has endured, and he has been one of the most celebrated and controversial leaders in world history.

No.313 (Czechoslovak) fighter squadron RAF belonged to a total of four squadrons of the Czechoslovak Air Force in the British Royal Air Force.

Commander of the 1st Flight of Squadron 13, Commander of pilot training for Bf-109, a participant in the Slovak National Uprising, during which he served as Deputy Commander of the Air Group of the 1st Czechoslovak Army. Generally recognized authority in the history of the Slovak Air Force.

Soviet self-loading rifle, which was supposed to be the new standard rifle of the Red Army, but its production was interrupted by the German invasion in 1941, which during World War II led to a change back to Mosin-Nagant rifles. However, during the war it found wide application. After the war, the Soviet Union accepted new rifles, such as the SKS and AK-47.

Originally laid down as the submarine tender Takasaki, she was renamed and converted while under construction into an aircraft carrier. The ship was completed during the first year of World War II and played a minor role in the Battle of Midway in mid-1942. She participated in the Guadalcanal Campaign during the rest of 1942. Significantly damaged during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in that campaign, after repairs Zuihō covered the evacuation of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal in early 1943.