Ivan Halás / Haspeklo

313th Czechoslovak Fighter Squadron

History of our Czechoslovak fighter squadron during World War II

357th FIGHTER GROUP

During its operation in WWII, the group reached the following milestones: 1) Achieved the highest number of shots in one day - 55.5 German aircraft 2) destroyed the most jet Me 262 - 18pcs 3) Achieved its shots in the shortest time, from 11.2.1944 for slightly higher year-a total of 701 destroyed aircraft 4) had the largest number of air aces (pilots with 5 or more shots) a total of 42 pilots

82nd Airborne Division

Combat History of the 82nd Airborne Division "All American"

Air Force Major (Ret.) Ľudovít Dobrovodský

Biography of a member of the Slovak Air Force, who took part in the fighting on the Eastern Front, in the Slovak National Uprising and fought in the 1st Fighter Regiment in the USSR.

Aircraft carrier Kaga

Kaga had a fairly similar fate as Akagi. It was originally built as a battleship with a displacement of 40,000 tons. However, the Washington agreement did not allow its construction and so it was planned to be scrapped.

Captain Carlos Bayo Alessandri

Spanish fighter ace, fighting in two wars.

Captain Micuo Fuchida

A pilot of the Japanese naval air force, who during the World War II led an attack wave on Pearl Harbor, watched the Battle of Midway only as a "spectator", survived the radiation after the explosion in Hiroshima and after the war traveled the world and preached the gospel.

Colonel in memoriam Jozef Gabčík

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.

Colonel in memoriam Rudolf Božík

Fighter ace of Slovak Air Arms.

Colonel of artillery in memoriam Jaroslav Krátký

Commander of Operation KARAS

Escuadrilla Azul

How Spanish pilots helped to conquer the Soviet Union

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery

Biography of one of the most important British commanders of World War II.

Fighter Squadron 13

the most famous and at the same time the most successful unit of the Slovak Air Forces SVZ

Flight Lieutenant John William Yarra

A biography of an Australian fighter ace from World War II.

Giora Romm - fighter ace from Israel

Wednesday, June 7, 1967, sky over the Suez Canal. Young Israeli pilot Giora Romm has just shot down his fifth enemy aircraft, the Egyptian MiG-17. He became the first Israeli fighter ace and also the first ace on the Mirage III fighter. When Romm was shot down over Egypt at the end of 1969 and captured, Israel redeemed him for 72 captured Egyptians.

Izidor Kovárik

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

Josef Dygrýn-Ligotický

Warrant Officer, Colonel in memoriam

Jozef Dobrovodský

Commander of Artillery Regiment 11

Jozef Drlička

Slovak pilot, twice deployed on the Eastern Front and in the defense of Slovakia in March 1939.

Lieutenant Colonel in memoriam Josef Bublík

member of the BIOSCOP group

Lieutenant Esteban Ibarreche Arriaga

Spanish fighter ace, fighting after the Civil War in the ranks of volunteers on the Eastern Front WWII.

Lieutenant Ján Režňák

Fighter ace of Slovak Air arms - 32 aerial victories

Major General (Ret.) Rudolf Pernický

A biography of the recently deceased famous Czechoslovak paratrooper.

Major General Jiří Hartman

Fighter pilot and commander of the 310th Fighter Squadron of the RAF in World War II.

Major infantry in memoriam in reserve Břetislav Chrastina

Spelter Group Commander.

Oath of Czechoslovak pilots - Great Britain

The text of the oath taken by Czechoslovak pilots during World War II in Great Britain.

Ondrej Ďumbala

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.

Paul Doumer Bridge

The railway bridge standing in the suburbs of Hanoi, which was the target of the US Air Force during the Vietnam War, celebrated its 107th birthday this year.

Polish flying tiger

A biography of Witold Urbanowicz or the story of a Pole who declared war on Japan.

Staff Captain in memoriam Rudolf Hrubec

Commander of the SILICA II group.

Sten submachine gun

The hour of your liberation is coming!

Message from the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston S. Churchill to the Czechs and Slovaks on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Munich Agreement (September 29, 1940)

The occupation of Norman Islands the lesser known part of British history

On the first day of July 1940, with the entry of German troops on British soil, a four-year occupation of the British Isles began. However, it was not, as Hitler wished, the occupation of Great Britain itself, but only the occupation of the archipelago of the British Channel Islands.