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 Novák.
Jaroslav Novák, F/O, (* 08/19/1915, † 05/03/1942), was a member of of 312 Sqn RAF.
Monument inscription:
ZA VLAST
ZEMRELI,
VECNÁ JIM
PAMET.
1939 - 1945
(levá strana)
OSVALD BARTOŠ, JOSEF BRUŠTEK, ŠTEPÁN BUŽEK, FRANTIŠKA DITTRICHOVÁ, MILAN DUTKIEVIC, FRANTIŠEK HOZA, AUGUSTIN KIJONKA, BOHUMIL KLEGA, JOSEF KMOŠTÁK, ING. ADOLF KNEJZLÍK, JOSEF LONDÝN, DR. JOSEF MARTÍNEK, VOJTECH FILIP
(zadní strana)
JAN MALUCHA, ANTONÍN MATUŠTÍK, EMIL MITUŠ, KAREL NAVRÁTIL, MILOŠ NAVRÁTIL, NPOR. JAROSLAV NOVÁK, EMAN PODGORNÝ, ANTONÍN POLEDNÍK, LUBOMÍR PREŠER, STANISLAV RAMIÁN, RUDOLF RECEK, ANTONÍN RÝPAR, MILAN ROTTER
(pravá strana)
GUSTAV SLAMJÁK, FRANTIŠEK SÍTKO, JOSEF ŠLOFAR, ANTONÍN ŠPACEK, JOSEF SCHREIER, ING.BRENEK ŠUPÁK, MIROSLAV TRAC, FRANTIŠEK URBANCÍK, JAROSLAV URBÁNEK, FRANTIŠEK VAVRECKA, LUDVÍK VRÁNA, VOJTECH VÝPOROVSKÝ