This is the site i think you need to see,all the videos are terrific. http://www.angel.ne.jp/~tochy/

Click on the links on the 1942 and 1945 links as well as the ones below it.Malkes you realise what can be done.

Thanks for the link, Trumper.

Michal

Just to change the subject, I’m very impressed to find a Czech on these pages.
For Xmas my missus bought me ‘Dark Blue World’, which I thought was a really suberb film and left me in tears at the end, as a Czech, what did you think of it.

Pete, I was very interested in aviation from my childhood. For some strange reason my father used to buy my aviation magazines well before I have started to read (he was a doctor). And when i grew up, I became more interested in WWII aviation and our pilots who served in RAF. And I have ever thought that this nation owe our wartime soldiers which fought in the west too much.

I am afraid it would be a matter for another long thread to discuss the things which happened to our wartime heroes here after 1948. But the film left me in tears too. I was then very sad for all the things that happened them in their home country, but proud of the people which made such splendid film a really fine tribute to our pilots.

I am afraid my english is too bad to express all my thoughts on this topic, Pete.

Michal

Firstly I have to say that I am quite new member of this forum and find it very fascinating. I would like to shortly introduce myself. I am 41 years old classic aeroplane and warbird enthusiast from Czech republic.

Now on the topic.

One name still missing in this thread is Ivan Vasilievich Smirnov. A russian ace of wwi. He is credited (in most sources) with 11 kills of German and Austro-Hungarian aeroplanes. He flew various Nieuport fighters, Morane-Saulnier Is and finally SPAD VIIs. After the bolshevik revolution he made his way out of Russia in early 1918. During WWII he flew with Netherland´s East Indies Army Air corps, obtaining the rank of captain. He was shot down and seriously wounded by Japanese zeros, flying the Dutch DC-2 (or DC-3?). He stopped flying in 1949 and died in October 1959. I believe his life would be worth of a movie.

regards

Michal