Václav Šlouf

Šlouf Václav DFC 8th October 1911 Nepomuk-Dvorec - 13th April 1976 England

A locksmith in the Škoda factory Pilsen, military service 1929-1934, the school of the young people VLU specialisation pilots in Prostějov, air regiment 3 M.R.Štefanik in Piešťany, a course of fighters, a course of flying without vision , corporal, pilot. In 1935 left for ZA as a teacher of flying in action 1000 new pilots. In 1938-1939 participant in national and international races (Italy, France). In 1939 escape to Poland, by boat to France, service in the Armée de I Air GC111/3 in the rank sergeant major, shot down in the air duel, rescued in parachute. Awarded Croix de Guerre. After the fall of France he flew to Africa and by boat to England. In RAF the 312th fighter squadron, very active in the battle of England.He became a commander of the squadron the 312th in the British rank major. At the end of the war in the Authority of Cz air forces in London. In 1944 he married the English. In 1945 returned to the country, a captain of air force till demobilisation service in the 2nd air division in České Budějovice. In 1946 Cz diploma of pilot of transport planes num. 1780. The pilot - captain in international lines CSA air force. After beginning of the communist regime his wife together with two daughters left for England. Václav joined them later. He came back to RAF, but because too many pilots he worker inland position .He could fly only from time to time in the acrobatic plane De Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth. To his death he was employed as a officer at the private air operator and in the company the British Collophane. In 1991 was rehabilitated in his country and promoted in the rank colonel in memoriam. The Šlouf brothers were devoted the commemorative board on their native house in Nepomuk-Dvorce.