Duchovní služba v čs. leteckých jednotkách ve Velké Británii za druhé světové války

Czechoslovak RAF Air Personnel and Chaplaincy in Great Britain during the Second World War.

Autor: PEJS Oldřich

PEJS, Oldřich: Duchovní služba v čs. leteckých jednotkách ve Velké Británii za druhé světové války

PEJS, Oldřich: Czechoslovak RAF Air Personnel and Chaplaincy in Great Britain during the Second World War.

Vojenská história, 7, 1, 2003, pp. 3 — 14.

In this study the author depicts the arrival of the Czechoslovakian pilots to the Great Britain after the fall of France in the time of World War IT up to their victorious return to free motherland. In the conclusion he concerns himself with the issue of re-establishment of chaplaincy in the after war Czechoslovakian army (1946 — 1947). The author deals with the problems connected with the establishment and activity of the chaplaincy within Czechoslovakian air units in the Great Britain. Apart from the organisation of the chaplaincy within Czechoslovakian air units deployed in RAF (Royal Armed Forces) itself he outlines the problems of the Slovak monks of School Brothers Congregation (Kongregácia Školských bratov) who worked in North-African and Near East ecclesiastical schools or training institutions before joining the Czechoslovakian foreign army. Some of them finally absolved strenuous air training and after completing it they were assigned to the fight air units (e.g. M. Kubina, A. Lopich).

Keywords: Military history. The Great Britain. World War II. Czechoslovakian pilots and chaplains in RAF (Royal Armed Forces).

Ročník: 7 | Číslo: 1/2003 | Stránky: 3 — 14