On Saturday 22.11. 2014 a commemorative event dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the largest Allied air raid took place in Brno. Part of this meeting was the commemorated tours of the exhibition in the Baroque Chapel and an accompanying program in the small courtyard of Špilberk Castle. It was attended not only by military history … Read more
In the baroque chapel of Špilberk Castle, from 26 August to 30 November 2014, you can see an exhibition dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the bombing of the city in 1944-5. It also includes a website (mobile version here) mapping the locations of allied interventions. Each site of intervention is then supplemented with the … Read more
In the eighties, the company Irisa Vsetín produced a plastic figure of a parachutist with a parachute, which was fired with a slingshot and was available almost everywhere. There was also a larger version of this toy, but it was already a dragon left during the fall months in a classic string. Today, these two … Read more
Today, exactly one hundred years have passed since the first plane was shot down from the sky. This happened when the crew of the French airplane Voisin III returned from the bombing mission to the enemy territory. Due to the great coincidence of events, French General Franchet D’Espere witnessed the whole event, and it was … Read more