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#Name* SORT (↓)First NamesTitleRankRAF Equivalent RankService No.Photo (Click to Expand)CommemoratedBornNationalityRoleAwardsAir ForceCommandUnitDateofIncident *See Note SORT (↓)AircraftTypeSerialCodeVictories (Fighters)BaseTimeMission                        Incident                        FateReferring Database                        Notes                        Links/Archive Reports
1 FejfarStanislavFlight Lieutenant82545France, Pihen-Les-Guines Communal Cemetery, Row C. Grave 8.Age RAFVR313Sqn (Czech)1942-05-17KilledOf Czechoslovakia.
2 FejfarStanislavCaptain (promoted Major 1947 and Colonel 1991 in memoriam)Flight Lieutenant82545


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Courtesy of Simon Muggleton Simon		Pihen-Les-Guines Communal Cemetery, Row C. Grave 8.1912-11-25 Pike near Nová PakaCzechoslovakiaPilotCzechoslovakia War Cross (x3), Czechoslovakia Medal for Valour (2), Czechoslovakia Medal of Merit First Class, Commemorative Medal of Czechoslovakiaoslovakia, Croix de Guerre (France), British 1939-1945 Star, Battle of Britain Clasp, Air Crew Europe Star and Defence MedalRAFVRFighter Command310Sqn (Czechoslovakia)

313Sqn (Czechoslovakia)

1942-05-17SpitfireVBBL972RY-S6Hornchurch11:33Top cover to Bostons attacking Boulogne docksAttacked by Focke WulfsKilled. Shot down by Josef 'Pips' Priller III./JG 26Battle of Britain

Ace

Served in Czechoslovak Air Force in France and Great Britain. Ace by 1940 with 5 confirmed kills.

1933 to 1935 studied at Military Academy in Hranice na Moravě and Prostějov, where he underwent flight training. Joined Aviation Regiment 3 General-Squadron M. R. Stefanik, in which he became commander of the 45th Fighter Squadron in 1938, flying the Avia B-534.

Like other Czechoslovakians, he had to leave Slovakia and return to his native Czechoslovakia Republic at the collapse of Czechoslovakia Republic. On 8 June 1939, crossed to neighboring Poland. Signed on for five-year service with the French Foreign Legion. Ship 'Sobieski' to France, arrived on 20 June. Rank of Sergent at the 1st Regiment of the Foreign Legion in Algeria Sidi-bel-Abbés.

After the outbreak of the war, retrained in North Africa, on Morane Saulnier MS-406 fighters for his own battle of France. On December 13, 1939, he and five other Czechoslovakians were assigned to the Groupe de Chasse I / 6, formed in Oran-La Senia and shortly sent across the Mediterranean Sea to metropolitan France. During the German invasion of Western Europe flew a total of 76,30 operational hours and shot down two aircraft certainly (Bf 109 and Hs 123) and the third probably (He 111). He also participated in six near suicide attacks on enemy tanks. GC I / 6 suffered terrible losses in these events.

After the French collapse flew with the remains of a broken unit to the south of France and 24 June 1940 along with other Czechoslovakiaoslovaks sailed on the ship 'General Chanza' to North Africa. Then to the British Isles, arriving on ship 'Neuralia' July 12, 1940

As a new Pilot Officer 6 August 1940 assigned to the 310Sqn. at Duxford. Retrained on Hurricane from August 17 to September 9, 1940 at the 6 OTU at Sutton Bridge. Returned to as an operational pilot scored 3 more victories in the Battle of Britain. 9 September he shot down Messerschmitt Bf 110C-4 Uffz. Pfaffelhuber from 15./LG 1. On September 15 shot down Dornier Do 17Z-3 Fw. von Görtze from 4./KG 3 and three days later, September 18, participated in the destruction of the Junkers Ju 88A-1 piloted by Fw. Otto Wahl from 9./KG 77.

Early November, he had to leave the unit because of painful sinusitis. Hospital in Ely and treated until April 1941, when he was assigned to the administrative function at the Inspectorate Air Force in London. Did not like his office work, so he tried to rejoin the combat unit. Returned to combat service 21st July 1941, when he was commander of the B-squadron assigned to the recently formed 313Sqn. armed with Spitfires, Mk.I, then Mk.IIA and Mk.VB. Numerous offensive actions over Continent, first in the Portreath wing and then Hornchurch wing. Another victory. Final combat account was six kills, two probable and one machine damaged.
,br> 17 May 1942 took off to his last combat flight. Hornchurch Wing (64Sqn, 122Sqnand 313Sqn 'Ramrod 33', top cover for Kenley wing, accompanying twelve Boston bombers aiming to docks in the port of Boulogne. After the bombing of the Hornchurch Wing did not immediately turn back, as the rest of the assembly, but flew further into the French inland to cover the retreat of the main force.

Only at St. Omer they began to turn toward the return journey. It happened at 11.30 h. At that time, the Kenley Wing flying as close escort attacked the Focke Wulf Fw 190 from I., II. and III./JG 26 'Schlageter'. The Hornchurch wing, however, remained at its height to cover against an attack. Two machines broke away from the 313Sqn. The other pilots first thought that the pilots just wanted to regroup, but then both of them disappeared from view. They called them by radio, but there was no answer. Since then, no one has seen Stanislav Fejfar's or his wingman Sgt Miroslav Borkovec. They were declared missing. After a few months a report received that Fejfar's remains had been buried in grave No. C-8 in the Pihen-les-Guines cemetery, about ten kilometers southwest of Calais.

From a study of German records, it became clear that Fejfar's Spitfire Mk.VB BL973 (RY-S) was shot down at 11.33 between Guines and Audembert in northern France by the well-known pilot Gruppenkommandeur III./JG 26 Hptm Joseph 'Pips' Priller in his Fw 190, for whom it was his 72 victory. Fejfar's fighter flared dazzlingly, rolled over on its back and shattered to the ground in a perpendicular dive. The pilot was probably hit because not attempt to parachute.

Kruh publishing house issued his (slightly censored) diary, which he kept during the war and which was sent to his family by an English girl. Fejfar's Diary of the Fighter is a valuable testimony of sincere and unpretentious patriotism

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