Fighter's Top Gun
Victories of Czechoslovak fighter pilots
Unit | Confirmed | Probabable | Damaged |
No. 310 Squadron | 56 + 4 FB | 20 | 32 |
No. 312 Squadron | 14 | 9 | 16 |
No. 313 Squadron | 12 | 8 | 16 |
Czechoslovak Flight of No. 68 Squadron | 18 1/2 + 3 FB | 5 | 7 |
Total | 100 1/2 + 7 FB | 42 | 71 |
Note: FB stands for German flying bomb V-1
Unit | Confirmed | Probable | Damaged |
Czechoslovak pilots at Polish Units | 17 | 1 | 0 |
Czechoslovak pilots at British Units | 68 | 14 1/3 | 45 2/3 |
Total | 85 | 15 1/3 | 45 2/3 |
Confirmed | Probable | Damaged |
185 + 7 FB | 57 1/3 | 116 2/3 |
Czechoslovak day fighter pilots listed by number of victories
Name | Confirmed | Probable | Damaged | |
1. | Sgt Josef Fantišek DFM | 17 | 1 | 0 |
2. | S/Ldr Otto Smik DFC | 9 + 3 FB | 2 | 3 |
3. | F/Lt Otmar Kučera DFC | 4 5/6 | 1 | 1 |
4. | F/O Josef Příhoda DFC | 4 1/4 | 2 | 3 |
5. | P/O Emil Fechtner DFC | 4 | 1 | 1 |
6. | F/Lt Stanislav Fejfar | 3 1/2 | 1 | 1 |
7. | F/Lt Bohumil Furst | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Czechoslovak day fighter pilots listed by number of sweeps
Name | Number of sweeps | |
1. | W/Cdr Jaroslav Hlaďo DSO DFC | 281 |
2. | S/Ldr Otto Smik DFC | 200 |
3. | W/Cdr Tomáš Vybíral DSO DFC | 196 |
4. | S/Ldr Václav Šlouf DFC | 192 |
5. | S/Ldr Jiří Hartman DFC | 168 |
Czechoslovak night fighter pilots listed by number of victories
Name | Confirmed | Probable | Damaged | |
1. | F/Lt Karel Kuttelwasher DFC & bar | 18 | 1 | 5 |
2. | S/Ldr Miloslav Mansfeld DSO DFC | 8 1/2 + 2 FB | 0 | 1 |
3. | F/O Ladislav Bobek DFC | 5 | 1 | 3 |
4. | S/Ldr Josef Hanuš DFC | 4 | 0 | 1 |
5. | W/O Josef Dygrýn DFM | 3 | 0 | 0 |
6. | F/Lt Josef Adam | 2 + 1 FB | 1 | 0 |
7. | S/Ld Vlastimil Veselý DFC | 1 1/2 | 0 | 2 |
8. | F/Lt Josef Vopalecký | 2 | 0 | 1 |
9. - 12. | F/Lt Karel Šeda | 1 | 0 | 0 |
9. - 12. | F/Lt Jan Šerhant | 1 | 0 | 0 |
9. - 12. | F/O Bedřich Krátkoruký | 1 | 0 | 0 |
9. - 12. | P/O František Běhal | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Czechoslovak night fighterradar operators listed by number of victories
Name | Confirmed | Probable | Damaged | |
1. | F/Lt Slavomil Janáček DFC DFM | 8 1/2 + 2 FB | 0 | 1 |
2. | F/O Bohuslav Kovařík DFM | 5 | 1 | 3 |
3. | W/O Fridolín Gemrot | 2 + 1 FB | 1 | 0 |
4. - 5. | F/O Rudolf Husár | 2 | 0 | 1 |
4. - 5. | P/O Zbyšek Nečas | 2 | 0 | 1 |
6. | F/O Drahomír Hradský | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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18/09/2018 21:05
Book "Poslední let Wellingtonu T2624" - update.
Separate page with more infromation regarding new book Poslední let Wellingtonu T2624 added into sections Books.
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11/09/2018 12:45
Cover of new book added to main page!
Cover of new book "Poslední let Wellingtonu T2624" in printing has been added to main page.
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23/05/2018 19:13
Riders in the Sky 1944
Added information about book Riders in the Sky 1944 which I co-authored. See a separate page in section Co-Authored Books.
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12/01/2018 18:23
Research Trip CZRAF2005
Page decribing my Research Trip CZRAF 2005 which I have lost during the webiste trnaformation has been partially recovered from old backup, the final part will be added soon.
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12/01/2018 17:49
Section Talks has been updated
Added brief information about my another talk about S/Ldr A. P. Zelený MBE given at Prague on 23. 11. 2017.
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