Beaufighter WM-U after crash on 30th May 1943 with the crew of F/O Josef VOPÁLECKÝ and F/S Rudolf HUSÁR. The engine failed and later its brakes during the emergency landing. “The crew escaped without injury, except for the big lump of Rudolf HUSÁR, who was trying to break the perspex dome, which, to everyone’s surprise, he managed to do...” The flight commander made VOPÁLECKÝ an offer: “Joe, we’ve got one more piece of crap her ... I want to get rid of it somehow, what do you think?" Concerning the accident, Josef VOPÁLECKÝ wrote: “if the dude wants to give put it straight into the hands of the mechanics, all that’ll be needed to clear it away will be shovels and pitchforks.” Archive of Tomáš Jambor

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