Date of birth:

January 21st, 1915 (Osicky, Czechoslovakia)

Date of death:

February 23rd, 1988 (Brno/Moravia, Czechoslovakia)

Service number:

82 540

Nationality:

Czechoslovakian (1918 - 1948, Republic)

Promotions:
1940: Pilot Officer;
1941: Flying Officer;
1942: Flight Lieutenant.

Career:
? - 1939: Pilot Czechoslovak Airforce;
1939: Pilote CIC Chartre, France;
May 27th, 1940: Pilote Groupe de Chasse I/4, France;
August 1940: Pilot No. 6 Operational Training Unit;
October 15th, 1940: Pilot No. 310 Squadron;
November 15th, 1942: Flight Leader "B" Flight, No. 310 Squadron;
February 27th, 1943: Brest;
?: Dulag Luft, Frankfurt am Main;
?: Oflag XXIB, Szubin, Poland;
April 1944: Stalag Luft III, Sagan;
July 1944: Gestapo Prague;
August 1944: Stalag Luft I, Barth;
September 1944 - 16 april 1945: Oflag IVC, Colditz.

Victories:
June 5th, 1940: Messerschmitt Bf 109 (shared);
June 5th, 1940: Messerschmitt Bf 109;
February 4th, 1942: Junker Ju 88 (damaged).

Own aircraft:
Curtis Hawk H.75C.1 No.212 "3";
Hawker Hurricane Mk.I;
Hawker Hurricane Mk.II;
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb, AB257 "NN-V";
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc, EP287, "NN-X".

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