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Current AffairsBattle of Britain: Remembering the Czech aces among 'The Few'
This week marks the 65th anniversary of the turning point in the
"Battle of Britain," when Royal Air Force pilots gunned down 185
German planes in a single day. Ahead of the battle, the Luftwaffe
outnumbered the RAF by more than three to one, and Adolf Hitler was
expecting a decisive victory that would allow him to mount a full-scale
invasion of the British Isles. Among the RAF fighting men who came to be
known as "The Few" were almost ninety Czechoslovaks -- including
the top scoring pilot of the entire battle. More
Panorama'Den-D': The Czech role in the Allied invasion of Normandy
Czechoslovak participation in the first weeks of "Operation
Overlord"—the invasion of Normandy that began on June 6, 1944—was
almost exclusively limited to the air, as soldiers from occupied
Czechoslovakia's 1st Armoured Brigade only deployed to France weeks after
the Allied landing. But hundreds more Czech fighting men took part in the
D-Day landings doing battle under the flags of other Allied nations. More
