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Re: Czech Pilot Josef Frantisek - What Medals?
Josef Frantisek was awarded by following medals:
Distinguished Flying Medal - gazetted 1 Oct 1940 but not received personally as he was killied in accident on 8 Oct 1940 (members of No 303 Sqdn were decorated by previously gazetted RAF decorations during Dec 1940).
Distinguished Medal and Bar - 28 Oct 1940
Krzyz Walecznych (Polish War Cross) - posthum 1 July 1941
Virtuti Militari V. kl. - Krzyz Srebrny (Silver Cross of the Order "To Military Valour", a Poland's highest military decoration for courage in the face of the enemy) - awarded 17 Sept 1940, a sole award which was personaly decorated during his life (by General Sikorski, Northolt 18 Sept 1940)
Ceskoslovensky valecny kriz (Czechoslovak War Cross) - posthum 25 Nov 1940
All of these decorations were send to family after the WW2.
Many secondary sources also states that he was awarded also by French Croix de Guerre. According French sources (Journal Officiel - "French London Gazette") there are no trace about any French decoration to Frantisek.
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