Generálplukovník Ján Ambruš

Colonel-General Ján Ambruš

Autor: CHYTKA Stanislav V. - VALÍŠ Zdeněk

CHYTKA, Stanislav V. - VALÍŠ, Zdeněk: Generálplukovník Ján Ambruš

CHYTKA, Stanislav V. - VALÍŠ, Zdeněk: Colonel-General Ján Ambruš.

Vojenská história, 7, 1, 2003, pp. 92 — 108.

The authors pictured in brief personality profile of the aeronaut Jan Ambrus, an important personality of the Air Forces in the inter-war Czechoslovak Republic, the Commander of the Air Forces of the Slovak Army after the Slovak State declaration and the second resistance movement participant. He was the first Commander of the Czechoslovak 311th bombing squadron in the Great Britain. Later he was appointed as the Deputy chief of the Czechoslovak military mission in the UCCP. At the same moment the authors outlined after war peripeteia of this personality destiny. On the basis of the documents, they discussed in the attachments his military experience after his arrival to France and involvement into the Czechoslovak resistance movement; they outlined his view to the origin of the Slovak State, establishment of the Slovak Army, Hungary-Slovakian conflict in March 1939. The authors outline the co-operation of the German military mission and the co-operation with the Slovak Army, economic circumstances in Slovakia in the time of war, Hlinka Guard operation, the characteristic of the Slovak government operation, the personality of the Minister of Defence F. Čatloš etc.

Keywords: Military history. Slovakia. World War II. General J. Ambruš.

Ročník: 7 | Číslo: 1/2003 | Stránky: 92 — 108.