{"id":174,"date":"2006-10-28T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T09:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=174"},"modified":"2006-10-28T10:31:30","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T09:31:30","slug":"the-czech-night-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"The Czech Night Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Czech National Day marking the anniversary of the declaration of independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire on 28 October 1918. To mark the event, the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in the United Kingdom is holding a meeting in central London and I&#8217;ve been invited to give a speech.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be talking about the wartime exploits of Flight Lieutenant Karel Kuttelwascher, a Czech who flew with the Royal Air Force in World War Two and became its greatest night intruder ace. He was known by the media as the &#8220;Czech Night Hawk&#8221; &#8211; hence the name of this blog &#8211;  and he was my wife&#8217;s father. You can read about his remarkable record <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nWhen I wrote Karel Kuttelwascher&#8217;s biography in 1985, obviously it was essentially the story of one man, but I saw it as a tribute to all the Czechoslovaks who served with the wartime Royal Air Force. Indeed the dedication at the front of the book \u2013 a dedication I included in both English and Czech \u2013 read: \u201cDedicated to all the Czechoslovak airmen who flew with the RAF in World War II\u201d. Therefore, in the second half of my talk today, I will say a little about the other Czechoslovaks who served with such distinction and valour. You can read about them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/czechsinraf.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt will not be a large meeting but the Czech Ambassador to Britain Dr Jan Winkler will be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Czech National Day marking the anniversary of the declaration of independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire on 28 October 1918. To mark the event, the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in the United Kingdom is holding a meeting in central London and I&#8217;ve been invited to give a speech. I&#8217;ll be talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}