LACW Edita Sedláková - Plzen, Czech Republic
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LACW Edita Sedláková (* 03/03/1926, † 05/10/1945), ground staff, a member of No.311 Squadron RAF
Waymark Code: WMZJA5
Location: Plzeňský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 11/18/2018
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When Edita was 13 years old she left Czechoslovakia on a Winton train (
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Apparently he underwent training at the Centre Bridgnorth, where he schooled the future radio operator operators who successfully completed. Replaced by several air bases and was assigned to the 311th MS. Bomber Squadron. There she met a mechanic on board F / Sgt. Zdenek Sedlak she had married.
On 5 October 1945 six months after the war had ended she was onboard a four-engine Liberator aircraft of 311 Sqn for a repatriation flight from Blackbushe airfield to Prague – Ruzyne, with twenty-three repatriate passengers on board. Sedláková’s husband was among them, and Edita was to finish her RAF on 14 November. They were going on their honeymoon. At 12:43 minutes the aircraft, with index PP-N, took-off and once airborne the engines on the left wing caught fire and Kudlácek, the pilot decided to return to the airfield. The aircraft suddenly veered into a left turn, hit the ground and exploded. The flight had lasted a matter of seven minutes, and now 23 people had been killed.
Plaque Inscription:
V tomto dome žila do roku 1939
Edita Sedláková - rozená Hermanová
LACW - svobodník, radista - operátor R.A.F.
Ženský pomocný sbor letectva (WAAF)
Narodila se 3. brezna 1926. Jako díte židovské rodiny byla v roce 1939 odvezena
coby Wintonovo díte do Velké Británie. Zahynula v troskách Liberátora GR - VI, PP - N
po startu u Elvethamu 5. ríjna 1945. Její manžel F / Sgt - por. Zdenek Sedlák R.A.F.
zemrel po havárii na následky zranení.
V Plzni 3.3.2017
Michael Hermann, synovec,
Letecký historický klub Plzen, SLCR - Letci Plzen.
ÚMO 3 Plzen
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