Výstavba 1. čs. zmiešanej leteckej divízie v ZSSR z pohľadu Júliusa Trnku (30. august 1944 – 12. marec 1945)

Building the 1st Czechoslovak Combined Air Division in the USSR from the Viewpoint of Július Trnka (30 August 1944 – 12 March 1945)

Autor: ŠUMICHRAST, Peter

ŠUMICHRAST, Peter: Výstavba 1. čs. zmiešanej leteckej divízie v ZSSR z pohľadu Júliusa Trnku (30. august 1944 – 15. január 1945) 

ŠUMICHRAST, Peter: Building the 1st Czechoslovak Combined Air Division in the USSR from the viewpoint of Július Trnka (30 August 1944 – 12 March 1945).

Vojenská história, 2, 16, 2012, pp 187-220.

 The issue of the 1st Czechoslovak Combined Air Division in the USSR has been addressed over the past decade by numerous professional historians, veterans, authors, and lots of aviation history fans. However, the truth is that even after 67 years, which have elapsed since the unit’s establishment, no original written documents that would, without editorial interventions or the author’s artistic inventions, depict the unsurpassable feelings of the direct actors shaping the historical events as they happened, have so far been published. That the past generations of historians have managed to preserve for the future at least some personal testimonies by direct actors of historical events is illustrated by a collection of memoirs at the Military History Archive in Bratislava, which is today made up of 504 titles. One of them contains the memoirs of Air Colonel Július Trnka (Army Reserve), who significantly contributed to the foundations of the Higher Czechoslovak Air Unit in the USSR.

Key words: Military History. Slovakia – USSR. Second World War. 1st Czechoslovak Combined Air Division in the USSR. Július Trnka – memoirs.

Ročník: 16 | Číslo: 2/2012 | Stránky: 187-220