CZECH AIRMEN
NEARLY 1000 SERVING IN BRITAIN MANY RAIDS ON GERMANY [ British Official \V!reJ«ag. ] Received Feb. 14, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, Feb. 13. Czechoslovak airmen stationed in Britain, who already number about 1000, while many more are being trained, have struck hard at the enemy during the past six months. They have taken part in bombing Berlin and 24 places in the Ruhr and north-western Germany, and in enemy-occupied territory. Their fighters shot down 44 enemy planes, or 59, including probables. The Czechoslovak Air Force comprises bombing and fighting squadrons over forty. A Czechoslovak army has been constituted as an independent, body, working in conjunction with the British Army. The Air Force is under the British command. Squadron-leaders, however, are Czechoslovak and a Czechoslovak inspectorate has been set up in the Air Ministry. The language used in the service is English. Most of. the pilots come from France, though some reached England from Czechoslovak, via Scandinavia, before the outbreak of war. Hurricane planes flown by Czechoslovak pilots scored their bag in the great battle over London.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 5
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