One of our A/c is missing
As this has some connections with the foregone I am curious as to whether the following is already known -
Czech traitor delivers Hurricane to Luftwaffe
Amid the Poles and Czech pilots escaping from Europe to join the RAF was a Czech pilot named Precui. While attached to 55 OCU Sqn RAF he - in company with a Polish pilot - each in Hurricanes flew out to sea off Sunderland where some time later the Czech Hurricane disappeared. The Pole reporting it as last seen diving towards the sea.
Apparantly Precui was a Czech traitor and had delivered the Hurricane
to the Lufwaffe via a field in Belgium - betraying to the Gestapo a couple who had befriended him. In 1947 he was tried and executed.
So far as aware this story has never been released by any British Govt -
kept secret and seems only to have come to light when a photo of a Hurricane surrounded by German pilots was discovered in latter years
by an a/c enthusiast - who took it upon himself to investigate.
The sqn markings on the Hurricane read A PA although its not clear if
the photo was that of the actual a/c involved.
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