Continuing on the Czech pilot front, from a long-time lurker.
I was aware that my wife's great uncle - Tedda Peel (Anglicised spelling) was a Czech RAF pilot in WWII and that family history told the story of his English wife and baby daughter getting the last train out of Czecho before the Soviets moved in in 1948 (only to have the family silver stolen from a platform at Orpington).
They were in Aden in the 60s and then the Southampton area in the 70s, before his widow ("Aunty Val") moved to Sevenoaks in the 80s.
Anyway, I got most of these stories from my father-in-law, and he casually mentioned recently that Tedda had also made his way to North Africa and the French Foreign Legion after getting out of Czecho in WWII. After reading Honza's posts above about his father, this made me sit up and wonder if their paths had crossed.
Unfortunately Tedda died before my wife was born so I'm wondering if anyone here can fill in the large gaps.
Thanks, NRT