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title: The Fight in the Air - Czechoslovakia
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cz-the-fight-in-the-air-1939/
description: 'Page 17 of an illustrated pamphlet: photographs of a Czechoslovak airman beside a propeller, a bomb chalked ''ZA LIDICE''.'
section: Collection
---

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# The Fight in the Air - Czechoslovakia

Page 17 of an illustrated pamphlet: photographs of a Czechoslovak airman beside a propeller, a bomb chalked 'ZA LIDICE', airmen under a wing and a pilot signing autographs for schoolboys, with text on Czechoslovak air service. The tell is selection: kill and bomb-tonnage claims ('138', 'at least 37', 'hundreds', 'thousands of tons') appear with no losses or sources, and the closing line frames the airmen as destroying 'the Nazis'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
THE FIGHT IN THE AIR

ZA LIDICE [on bomb]

The Czechoslovak pilots fought successfully in France bringing down 138 enemy machines.

After the French collapse they escaped to England to continue the struggle. After a short period of re-forming they took part in the Battle of Britain in which they destroyed at least 37 German aircraft. Czechoslovak Fighters operating from Britain have destroyed hundreds of enemy aircraft; many more were probably destroyed or damaged. The Czechoslovak pilots of Bomber Command have made countless flights over Germany; attacking enemy targets and dropping thousands of tons of bombs.

During the past two years Czechoslovak airmen have also taken part in the R.A.F.'s onslaught on the Nazi U-boats. Wherever there are Allied air operations Czechoslovak pilots play their part in destroying the Nazis.

1. Kuttelwascher — Czechoslovak ace nightfighter known to countless admiring schoolboys as 'Kuttel.'

17

[Translation of bomb inscription: 'For Lidice']
```

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