***PHOTO DU 16 NOVEMBRE 2015*** Ancien combattant de la guerre tchécoslovaque Imrich Gablech, qui a servi dans la Royal Air Force pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, est mort à l'âge de 101 tôt ce matin, le 16 décembre 2016. Gablech ont reçu l'Ordre du Lion Blanc, qui est la plus haute décoration de la République tchèque, et le commandant polonais's Cross. Il a été également décoré dans son pays natal, la Slovaquie où il a été qualifié de traître par le gouvernement pro-nazi de guerre (1939-1945) et condamné à mort. Peu après son 100e anniversaire l'année dernière, il a été promu au grade de général. Dans Hrachoviste Gablech est né, à l'ouest
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***FILE PHOTO FROM NOVEMBER 16, 2015*** Czechoslovak war veteran Imrich Gablech, who served in the British Royal Air Force during World War Two, died at the age of 101 early this morning, on December 16, 2016. Gablech received the Order of the White Lion, which is the highest Czech decoration, and the Polish Commander's Cross. He was also decorated in his native Slovakia where he was labelled a traitor by the wartime pro-Nazi government (1939-1945) and sentenced to death. Shortly after his 100th birthday last year, he was promoted to the rank of general. Gablech was born in Hrachoviste, west Slovakia in 1915. He graduated from a pilot school in interwar Czechoslovakia, left Slovakia for Poland after a Nazi-sponsored state was established in Slovakia in March 1939. In September 1939, the Soviet secret service interned Gablech in the part of Poland that was occupied by the Soviet Union. He was sentenced to five years of forced labour. In 1941, while in a forced labour camp near the Pechora River, he was sentenced to another ten years for his participation in a rebellion. He lost much of his weight, down to 40 kilograms, in these labour camps and due to malnutrition he went temporarily blind.After Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, he was released as a Polish prisoner of war. In October 1941, he arrived in Britain, where he joined the Czechoslovak unit and returned to flying for a short time. Due to his health problems, he had to stop flying and worked as a flight controller until the end of the war. Following his return to Czechoslovakia, Gablech was a flight controller in Prague and later in Havlickuv Brod where he spent most of his life. After the 1948 Communist coup, he was discharged from the military. In 1951, he was arrested for a time and sacked from work. He had to do unskilled manual jobs until retirement. (CTK Photo/Lubos Pavlicek)
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