Valášek, Karel

     
Příjmení:
Surname:
Valášek Valášek
Jméno:
Given Name:
Karel Karel
Jméno v originále:
Original Name:
Karel Valášek
Fotografie či obrázek:
Photograph or Picture:
Hodnost:
Rank:
plukovník v. v. plukovník (Ret.)
Akademický či vědecký titul:
Academic or Scientific Title:
- -
Šlechtický titul:
Hereditary Title:
- -
Datum, místo narození:
Date and Place of Birth:
21.03.1917 Holešov-Všetuly / 21.03.1917 Holesov-Vsetuly /
Datum, místo úmrtí:
Date and Place of Decease:
20.08.2009 Wolverhampton
20.08.2009 Wolverhampton
Nejvýznamnější funkce:
(maximálně tři)
Most Important Appointments:
(up to three)
- stíhací pilot - fighter pilot
Jiné významné skutečnosti:
(maximálně tři)
Other Notable Facts:
(up to three)
- v roce 1937 absolvoval pilotní výcvik v Aeroklubu MLL ve Zlíně
- 21. května 1944 sestřelen nad Francií (Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk.IXC MJ663 NN-B), 21. června 1944 zajat a vězněn do konce dubna 1945
- po demobilizaci žil ve Velké Británii
- in 1937 he completed pilot training at the Aeroclub MLL in Zlín
- 21 May 1944 shot down over France (Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk.IXC MJ663 NN-B), 21 June 1944 captured and imprisoned until the end of April 1945
- after demobilisation he lived in the UK
Související články:
Related Articles:
Zdroje:
Sources:
Jan Rail, Jiří Micka: Fakta o sestřelení Karla Valáška, Letecké listy č. 2/1997.
Archiv pana Zdeňka Valáška via Adolf Valášek
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Příjmení:
Surname:
Valášek Valášek
Jméno:
Given Name:
Karel Karel
Jméno v originále:
Original Name:
Karel Valášek
Všeobecné vzdělání:
General Education:
DD.MM.1923-DD.MM.1928 Obecní škola Všetuly /
DD.MM.1928-DD.MM.1931 Měšťanská škola chlapecká, Holešov /
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Vojenské vzdělání:
Military Education:
DD.MM.1940-DD.MM.1940 poddůstojnická škola ve Francii DD.MM.1940-DD.MM.1940 non-commissioned officers' school in France
Důstojnické hodnosti:
Officer Ranks:
07.03.1945 podporučík
01.01.1946 poručík
DD.MM.1991 plukovník v. v.
07.04.1944 pilot důstojník
07.10.1944 letecký důstojník
07.03.1945 Sub Lieutenant
01.01.1946 2nd Lieutenant
DD.MM.1991 Colonel (Ret.)
07.04.1944 Pilot Officer
07.10.1944 Flying Officer
Průběh vojenské služby:
Military Career:
01.03.1939-DD.03.1939 Letecký pluk 5
14.07.1939-DD.MM.1939 odchod do exilu (via Polsko do Francie)
DD.05.1940-19.06.1940 služba v čs. armádě ve Francii - letecká skupina
19.06.1940-21.06.1940 evakuace do Velké Británie
25.07.1940-21.10.1941 vstup do RAF a výcvik
21.10.1941-09.12.1941 57. operačně výcviková jednotka - operační výcvik
15.12.1941-15.05.1943 313. (československá) peruť RAF
15.05.1943-15.11.1943 61. operačně výcviková jednotka - instruktor
15.11.1943-21.05.1944 310. (československá) peruť
21.05.1944-20.06.1944 po se sestřelení nad Francií ukrýván odbojáři
20.06.1944-DD.04.1945 válečný zajatec
16.05.1945-DD.MM.1945 návrat ze zajetí a rekonvalescence
DD.MM.1946-DD.MM.1946 demobilizován
01.03.1939-DD.03.1939 5th Air Regiment
14.07.1939-DD.MM.1939 exile (via Poland to France)
DD.05.1940-19.06.1940 service in the Czechoslovakia. army in France - air group
19.06.1940-21.06.1940 evacuation to the UK
25.07.1940-21.10.1941 joining the RAF and training
21.10.1941-09.12.1941 No. 57 OTU - operational training
15.12.1941-15.05.1943 No. 313 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF
15.05.1943-15.11.1943 No. 61 OTU - instruktor
15.11.1943-21.05.1944 No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF
21.05.1944-20.06.1944 after being shot down over France, he was hidden by the Resistance
20.06.1944-DD.04.1945 prisoner of war
16.05.1945-DD.MM.1945 return from captivity and convalescence
DD.MM.1946-DD.MM.1946 demobilized
Vyznamenání:
Awards:
Poznámka:
Note:
osobní číslo: B-1001
osobní číslo RAF: 787485 (176089)

Prezentován 9.12.1939 v Rouen jako vojín.
Personal No.: B-1001
RAF No.: 787485 (176089)
Zdroje:
Sources:
RAJLICH, Jiří. Na nebi hrdého Albionu: 4. část (1943). Cheb: Svět křídel, 2002. ISBN 80-85280-84-1
RAJLICH, Jiří. Na nebi hrdého Albionu: 5. část (1944). Cheb: Svět křídel, 2003. ISBN 80-86808-01-7.
Jan Rail, Jiří Micka: Fakta o sestřelení Karla Valáška, Letecké listy č. 2/1997
Archiv pana Zdeňka Valáška via Adolf Valášek
www.holesov.cz
www.vuapraha.cz
www.vuapraha.cz
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Retired Colonel Karel Valášek

Karel Valášek was born on 21 March 1917 in the village of Všetuly, today part of the town of Holešov. His father Josef Valášek worked as a blacksmith in the Všetuly sugar factory, his mother Amálie as a worker in the sugar factory. He had a total of six siblings. From 1923 to 1928 he attended the municipal school in Všetuly, and until 1931 he attended the burgher boys' school in Holešov. In 1929, his father died and his mother and children had to leave the service apartment in the sugar factory in Všetėliai and move to a sublet. After finishing his schooling, he apprenticed at the Bata company in Zlín and then worked as a mechanic at the Bata company.
In 1937, he completed elementary pilot training on Otrokovice aeroplanes at the Aeroclub of the Masaryk Aviation League Zlín as part of the "1000 Pilots of the Republic" event. Along with him, thirty other employees of Bata, including later members of the Czechoslovak Air Force in the RAF, Jan Lazar, Jozef Hrala, Jan Neradil and Pavel Kocfelda, also received training. At the end of his training, he passed the theoretical and practical exams on 26 August 1937 before the commission of the Ministry of Public Works and received his pilot's license for tourist aircraft the following month.
After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, he fled to France via Poland and after its surrender went to England, where he joined the British Royal Air Force (registration number 787485). Between 1940 and 1941, he underwent elementary, continuation and combat training as a fighter pilot and from 15 December 1941 began his first operational tour with the Czechoslovak 313th RAF Squadron, which he completed in mid-May 1943. After a short stint with a training unit, he began a second operational tour with the Czechoslovak 310th RAF Squadron on 15 November 1943. From 1941 until 1944 he fought as a pilot in the defence of Great Britain and in offensive operations over Western Europe.
On 21 May 1944, he was shot down over northern France near the town of Saint Lo by German ground anti-aircraft defences in his Spitfire LF Mk. IXC registration NN-B, in an attack on ground targets as part of Operation Ramrod 905. Fortunately, he managed to make an emergency landing in the field. On the same day and in the same area, the pilot of the 312th RAF Squadron W/O Robert Ossendorf, who was also from Holešov, was shot down.
After being shot down, W/O Karel Valášek hid from capture with the help of members of the French Resistance. After the start of the Allied invasion of Europe on June 20, 1944, he decided to cross the front. However, he was captured by German soldiers on 21 June 1944. The Germans did not believe his claim to be an RAF pilot because he was captured in civilian clothes. He was handed over to the Gestapo in Paris and was then imprisoned in Wiesbaden and Mohuche (Mainz) in Germany from where he was threatened with transport and liquidation in a concentration camp.
By a lucky coincidence, he managed to cross into a POW transport at a railway station. In September 1944, he was subsequently imprisoned in the POW camp Stalag Luft VII in Bankau, Upper Silesia (now Bakow, Poland). When the Red Army approached the camp in January 1945, he was moved on foot via Wittenberg to another camp, Stalag IIIA in Luckenwalde in Brandenburg. As the front approached in late April 1945, in the ensuing confusion, Karel Walasek managed to escape from the camp, crossed the front and joined the US Army. The latter transported him to the airfield at Halle near Leipzig and from there he was transported via Brussels and Lille to England.
Karel Valášek, together with his wife Joan and son Antonín, returned to their homeland only briefly after the war. He married in England in 1941. He had hoped to get a job again with the Bata company in its air transport department, but he failed to do so and the family returned to England. We do not know much about his later life. From 1947, he lived in Wolverhampton in the county of Staffordshire in central England. He was in the car sales and car repair business and operated several petrol stations. His life was marked by great personal tragedy when none of his three children lived to adulthood. He died on August 20, 2009 at the ripe old age of ninety-two. He achieved the rank of Flying Officer in the British Royal Air Force, and was awarded the rank of Second Lieutenant by the Czechoslovak Ministry of National Defence. In 1991, he was promoted to the rank of retired colonel.


Decorations:
Czechoslovak:
3x Czechoslovak War Cross 1939
2x Czechoslovak Medal "For valour in the face of the enemy"
Czechoslovak Military Commemorative Medal "For service in the Czechoslovak Army abroad" (with the label France and Great Britain)
Czechoslovak Military Medal "For Merit" I. Grade
British:
The 1939-45 Star
Air Crew Europe Star
Atlantic Star
War Medal 1939-45



Source:
Jiří Rajlich. Part 4, Svět křídel Cheb, 2001, 2002.
Jan Rail, Jiří Micka: Facts about the shooting down of Karl Valášek, Letecké listy No. 2/1997.
Archive of Mr. Zdeněk Valášek via Adolf Valášek.
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Photos of Charles Valáška of otrokovického airport from 1938.
Source: Own collection of photos via Zdeněk Valášek, Pavel Kocfelda..
Valášek, Karel - Karel Valášek u letounu Zlín Z-XII.

Karel Valášek u letounu Zlín Z-XII.
Valášek, Karel - Karel Valášek (první z leva) s instruktorem zlínského aeroklubu Václavem Urubou (v civilu), dále první z prava pozdější pilot RAF Pavel Kocfelda, druhý z prava pilot RAF Jozef Hrala (zahynul v roce 1942).

Karel Valášek (první z leva) s instruktorem zlínského aeroklubu Václavem Urubou (v civilu), dále první z prava pozdější pilot RAF Pavel Kocfelda, druhý z prava pilot RAF Jozef Hrala (zahynul v roce 1942).
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