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Re: Catalina - W8418 - lost 23 Dec 1941 - crew
Looking at Havlicek service file on ancestry, a very sad letter from his father dated 1945 writing to, Czech Attache in Ottowa.
He had been working as manager of Toronto Agency of KOTVA Company in Zlin in 1938.
He was written to by his son early in the war to say he had joined the Canadian forces, having been a reserve Lt in Czech forces.
Heard from his brother, the Czech minister is Tokio that his son was 'mentioned' in London around May 1941 and he heard nothing else until a Czech in Sagan, Germany mention that V V Havlicek had died on the battlefield.
So only in July 1945 was he able to try to find out what became of his son.
Ah, theres only 14 sheets of service file scanned, I'm inclined to think theres more in the actual file, but they cherry picked what to scan (maybe??).
That's disappointing, I was sure it would turn up a F765 of F412 or something
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