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Jindrich Beran (15 November 1905 in Rožná - Killed in action 11 May 1940) was a Czechoslovakian Captain in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Jindrich Beran was born November 15, 1905 at Rozna pod Pernstejnem, Moravia. It passes the baccalaureate at the technical high school in Nove Mesto na Morave, town near his birthplace. He began working as a teacher, but different continuous with the count of the region the weary. After just two years of activities in education, he entered the school of reserve infantry officers in Olomouc (Moravia) to do his military service. He finished in 1927 and decided to make a military career. J. Beran continued his studies at the Military Academy. In lieutenant he was seconded to Slovakia where he takes the service to Regiments Hunters 4 and 5. Immediately one notices his exceptional abilities. It is sent internship in Bohemia from the 66th squadron of observation. Thus, Jindrich Password infantry to the air force. Three years later, he was seconded to the Kbely military airport in Prague where he attended a fighter pilot instructed. Two years pass and Jindrich Beran is detached in Olomouc first lieutenant. Note that the squadron was equipped with biplane Letov S.328. Then he returned to Prague with the squadron of heavy bombardment, where he spent in Brno. Certainly Jindrich Beran has the makings of a major. No wonder his superiors recommended for studies at the War College in Prague. It is an excelling student who is already in first year high to captain. Following the decision of the Ministry of National Defence, he was sent to Paris to follow studies at the Aviation War College. It is currently taking courses in France, with the air force units, while the end of October 1938, he was recalled to Bohemia. It is in command of the 40th Fighter Squadron of the Regiment 4 of the air force, equipped by Avia B-534 machines. But after the country's occupation by the Germans, the Czechoslovak army is dissolved. Jindrich Beran will not sit idly by working in an office somewhere. He spends the Polish border and again with some Czechoslovak pilots, he embarks for the country of the Gallic rooster. In France, the pilot trained at Chartres. In December 1939 he was among the first group of fighter pilots sent to the Western Front. He joined the GC III / 3. It is considered a pilot excelling war. Jindrich Beran accompanies French Potez 63 reconnaissance patrols to overflights of German territory. But it is his Czechoslovak patrol three members, it is the commandment, which is particularly noticed during operational flights. Captain Jindrich Beran is the Czechoslovak fighter pilot oldest and the first Czech fighter pilot, shot down during the Battle of France, 12 May 1940. He was buried in Wetteren, Belgium, not far from the where he was killed. On October 15, 1950, family Jindrich Beran request the exhumation of his remains. During the solemn ceremony, Wetteren citizens have made the supreme honors at Czech driver. The remains were deposited at the family vault at Rozna pod Pernstejnem, Jindrich Beran place of birth. He is the only driver Czechoslovak eternally resting in his homeland because in December 1963 the remains of the other fighter pilots, unearthed burial sites have been tabled in the Targette near Arras. Decorated posthumously twice the Czechoslovak War Cross and the French Croix de Guerre with Palm, he was elevated to Lieutenant Colonel in 1947 and a quarantine of years later, to colonel.

Awards

 * Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945 with ribbon (posthumously)


 * Croix de Guerre (1939-1945) with palmes (posthumously)