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Old 7th November 2021, 21:08
David Sumerauer David Sumerauer is offline
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Re: Sgt. Sodak 258 Squadron 1941

Hi there,
I was looking into the case again and finally found this film on the net confirming that Sgt. Sodek was involved in the incident described and that he was the pilot shot down. It is interview with the Jaroslav Sodek himself (his name again misspelled as Sodka) and he is describing being shot down by Bf 109īs from minute 6.30 of the footage.

http://video.flyingheritage.com/v/11...slav-sodka.htm

Interesting part is his announcement that except being shot down early on in his combat career with 258 sqn and his combat with JU-88, he never saw German aircraft closer then 2-3 miles during his entire flying. Remember, that he completed 2 tours (> 530 combat hours and over 250 missions). Second interesting information is that he received Kings Commendation for saving the aircraft after being shot down.
His description of successfull bale out from other part of footage relates to his pre-war mid air collision flying Avia B534.35. He baled out on Sep 6, 1937, the other pilot Julius Zaoral flying Avia B534.208 successfully landed damaged aircraft.

David
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