John mohr pilot biography books
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450 Stearman Acro History
The rest of his life was spent building and flying model aircraft. He lived alone on his farm, his door was always unlocked, and nobody knocked. You just went in. He finally injured himself in his 90s trying to buy a microwave and ended up in a nursing home, which didn't last long. My very last memory of him was him telling us that the nursing home took away his pocket knife and he couldn't widdle things out of wood anymore. He said he was glad he was at the end of his life because of the sad state our country was becoming. He took great entertainment in donating money to both the Democrats and the Republicans just to see what would happen.
He was also big into photography and developing his own photos. I remember one photo where he was sitting in two chairs across a table playing chess against himself. He did get to see Photoshop before he died which
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Osudy – Life stories
Czech version
From a batman to squadron commander
S/Ldr Otto Smik, DFC
Born on 20th January 1922, Borjomi, Georgia
Killed in action on 28th November 1944, Zwolle, Holland
Buried under a different name
He was born as a son of a captured Austro-Hungarian soldier, originally from Slovakia, and a Russian Jewish woman. He started his military career from the very bottom – at first, he served as a batman. In 1941, upon his own request, he was sent to a pilot training course. He was one of the best Czechoslovak pilots, which was one of the reasons he was selected to be a gunner trainer after he finished his first flying term. Apart from other feats, he shot down three V-1 flying bombs in one day during his second term.
He was shot down in September 1944, however, he returned to Great Britain with the help of the Dutch resistance movement. In November 1944, he was shot down for the second time. Because of an incorrect identification, his remains were originally buried under the name of a Belgian F/O Henri L. J. M. Taymans. Nevertheless, Taymans’ body was located in 1965 and Otto SMIK was thus consequently buried again, this time under his real name, at the cemetery Adegem East by Gent in Belgium. In September 1994, his remains were transported to Slova
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