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🗓️ 9 May 2025
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0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the world. |
0:05.6 | I'm John Batchew with Sputlanda Lakova, recovering her memories and her research of the conduct of some of her relatives, |
0:14.4 | her grandfather, her great-grandfather, her grandmother, and now a great-uncle, Victor, |
0:20.7 | and his mother, Antonia. |
0:23.5 | Victor was a pilot. |
0:25.2 | What did he do? |
0:26.1 | Where was he? |
0:27.3 | So my great uncle, Victor, so he was an ace pilot. |
0:32.6 | In fact, him and my grandfather, so let's try it. |
0:36.9 | Him and my grandfather both grew up with a dream of becoming aviators. |
0:42.7 | And they joined the pilot school, and then he became an ace, and he was flying air cobra. |
0:50.3 | So this is an American plane that Americans provided as part of Landlitz. |
0:55.0 | And he was flying the plane over Finland. |
0:59.6 | And this was a very, very different experience that it would have been in the United States |
1:08.4 | because it was very, very low altitude. |
1:10.4 | It was, you know, it was very, very tough. |
1:13.9 | But he somehow managed to survive the Second World War. |
1:18.3 | And he died in the Korean War. Is that correct? |
1:22.1 | The war that he was not supposed to be in, and Americans were not supposed to be in. |
1:25.8 | So the sad irony is that |
1:27.7 | he survived the Second World War arguably because he was flying an American-made airplane. And |
1:34.3 | then he was killed in the Korean War, which was a secret war. So nobody actually was supposed to |
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