22-10-2007, 12:30 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1   | Otto Spacek RIP Wartime Czech fighter pilot persecuted, but later honoured, at home for his services to the Allies http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2708053.ece
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22-10-2007, 02:16 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3  | For many their war did not end in 1945. Rest in Peace.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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22-10-2007, 02:21 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | An excellent film covering Czechs in the RAF, and the terrible things they went through immediately after the war back in their homeland is Tmavomodrý svet (Dark Blue World): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244479/ http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nkHTQKWrdj0
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Now there's a bloke who never gave up and had a deep love for his country despite what its leaders did to him. Dark Blue World - still haven't seen it. 
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