World War II Memorial - Ostrava, Czech Republic
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World War II Memorial - Ostrava
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Location: Moravskoslezský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 06/03/2018
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Almost every village in the current Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia) has a monument devoted to the victims of WWI and WWII. Among the victims of WWII were also civilians who participated in home resistance against German occupiers or died in German concentration camps. The monuments also mention the names of soldiers of the former Czechoslovak army. These soldiers fled abroad from the occupied homeland and were involved in fighting in the east and west of Europe. They created a separate Czechoslovak unit that was part of the Red Army or Allied armies of the Great Britain and the United States.
A special group of soldiers of WWII were Czechoslovak airmen who joined the RAF. In the RAF, there were several squadrons (
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The inscription of this monument also mentioned the name Jaroslav Kula.
Jaroslav Kula, F/Lt, Navigator, (* 01/04/1914, Moravská Ostrava, † 12/03/1942 missing from the operational flight, the plane landed on a sea level, Wellington R1802 (KX-P).), was a member of of 311 Sqn RAF.
Monument inscription:
PADLÝM A UMUCENÝM
1939 – 1945
BEDNÁR ZDENEK
BURAN BEDRICH
FOLDYNA JOSEF
KOSTKA ALOIS
KREJCÍ ZDENEK
KUBALA RUDOLF
KULA JAROSLAV
NEUVIRT BOHUSLAV
PIETRAS ADOLF
PIETRAS JOSEF
RYTZKOVÁ KVETA
ROTTER ALOIS
REHÁK VILÉM
SLAMIOK AUGUSTIN
ŠRÁMEK RUDOLF
VELICKA BOHUMIL
VORÁLEK VOJTECH
ŽÁCEK LADISLAV