Milan Malý - Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

In 1939 Milan Malý (visit link) (visit link) was sent to Kassel, Germany as a forced labourer. He escaped and crossed over the Alps to Yugoslavia on 21 June 1940. In Belgrade, he enlisted in the Czechoslovak Army on 29 June and was sent to Palestine, where he joined a Czechoslovak Army unit on 9 July.

In November of that year, he was posted the 1st Infantry Company of the 11th Eastern Czechoslovak Infantry Battalion, with whom he participated in the Western Desert campaign from 31st May 1941, from 24th June 1941 deployed on the front in Syria and from 21st October 1941 in the western section of the defence perimeter of the besieged Libyan port of Tobruk. He left liberated Tobrúk on 7th April 1942 and was assigned to the 4th Company of the 500th Battalion of the 200th Eastern Czechoslovak Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment. On 21st October 1942, with a group of other former ‘Tobruk rats’, he transferred the Royal Air Force in Great Britain.

e reached the Scottish port of Greenock aboard the ship ‘Santa Maria de Orduna’ on 1st January 1943 and on the 2nd January 1943, at the Czechoslovak Depot at St Athan and enlisted in the RAF VR (serial number 788498). Basic pilot training commenced on 10th April 1943 in England. He was posted to Canada in mid-September 1943, where on the 16th October 1943 he started elementary pilot training with 31 EFTS (Elementary Flying Training School) at the De-Winton airbase and 28th February 1944 for advanced training at 34 SFTS (Service Flying Training School) in Medicine Hat, Canada. Afterwards he was posted 31 PD (Personnel Depot) at Manston in Great Britain on 22nd September 1944, and from 17th February 1944 he concluded his operational pilot´s training at 57 OTU (Operational Training Unit).

He was then posted, as a fighter pilot, to 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron from 1st May 1945, with whom he returned to a liberated Czechoslovakia on 18th August 1945. After the war, from August 1945, he served in „threehundredtwelve“ at Planá airbase, near Ceské Budejovice, where he took part, amongst others, in the training of Israeli fighter pilots. Milan Malý was promoted to the rank of a Air Force Colonel in 1991. He is a recipient of numerous Czechoslovak and Allied decorations.

Jan Maly was also on the instructors of pilots of Haganah Squadron (visit link)

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