[Balazs Garai]

Dear Michael, and everybody



I would like to correct my story:

I wrote for you about end of Januar 1945, This time came the obey: Transfering from Ohlau to Prag-Kbely.

(Maybe the I/NJG102, II/NJG 102 ????- My Grandfather told for me they went together with the Germans) and the –second parts of 5/1 Hungarian Night Fighter Squadron started packed (including my Grandfather), and they went by train to Prag-Kbely. The travelling didn’t go easy. Because first way were always for the armys and the munitions trains.

First city was for them Liegnitz (now in Poland: Legnica) airfield, then they went to some airfield from eight kilometers nord from Łukaszow, the German name I don’t know, because my Grandfather marker his road on his aeroplanmap, and the size of this map 1:1000000, not so punctualy. And of this place name don’t have on the map.

The third city were for them Hirschberg (Jelenia Góra), and after Görlitz (Zhorjelz), and Reichenau (Bogatynia) airfields. On the sixth days they pass the „border” (didn’t have border, because this time everyting belongs to German). Because the Germans also occupied Czech.

After the border they went to Leitmeritz (now and almost always –the name of this city was Litomeřice, and always belongs to Czech).

After this city they arrive to Praga-Kbely. The road was almost 350 km long.

Now in Prag-Kbely has the Aeroplan Museum. Front of this Museum have three army buildings, this were for them the places, where they learned how fly by Bf 110 G4.

(I also were there with my Father and with my twins brother in 1998. In this time the street name was: Mladoboleslavská).

In 1945 for the German Luftwaffe didn’t have fuel, and the hungarians didn’t fly almost nothing. One of the rare flying was, when lieutenant István Rózsa pilot and his gunner serg. László Hancsics disappert, they crashed, (maybe in Bohemia) and they come back just few days later to the squadron.

They had so many empty time, so they started visit the beautiful city. But they felt very well the Czech’s hate all of the occupied solders including the Hungarians. Just little were for them better, because they uniforms were green, and the czech civils know they are not Germans.

For my Grandfather had some little problem, when they visit the city and bars, somebody stole his pistol –probably was one of the Czech civil (partisan), who need more it. If his Hungarian officers would like to control the guns and pistols he would be in a problem, but they didn’ do.

Later came the obey: Join with the –first parts of the Hungarian Night Fighters in Austria. From this time started finish the war for the Hungarians. They leaved the Bf-110G4’s in Austria, later the Germans to detonated. And 8. 05. 1945. the Americans caught them in Wittibreuth and in Pocking, and they went to the internment camp.

Sincerely, Balazs Garai