Vladimír Wais in 2022

Dagmar Jungmannová with a photo of her father Karel Mareš, the first commander of the Czechoslovak 311th Bombardment Squadron, General Karel Mareš. Filming for Memory of Nations, October 2023, Sedlčany

Špejchar in Kosovo Hora. On the ground floor, Antonín Janota had a Motex plant for the production of engine oil filters for cars and aircraft. For a short time, the expatriate and former general Karel Mareš worked here, around the 1950s.

The picture of the crashed American plane near Hradištek was probably taken by General Mareš, 1947

President Edvard Mareš accompanied by General Karel Mareš (right), 1940s

Excellent pilot Karel Mareš in front of the aircraft, 1920s-1930s

Photographs of General Ludvík Svoboda (left) and Karel Mareš (right) from their time in the Soviet Union, 1940s

Dagmar Jungmannová walks with the Red Cross flag during the May Day parade in Kosova Hora, with her mother on her right hand, 60s

The castle in Kosova Hora at the time when the family of former general Karel Mareš moved in, turn of the 1940s and 1950s

May Day celebrations in Kosova Hora, Dagmar Jungmannová standing in the middle and her mother standing on the right, 1960s

Dagmar Jungmannová is sitting in the middle, at that time she was studying at the gymnasium in Sedlčany, 1960s

Little Dagmar in the castle garden in Kosova Hora with St. Bartholomew's Church behind her, 1950s

A trip to the largest vicarage - Hus pulpit, 1950s

Schoolgirl Dagmar Jungmannová, Kosova Hora, 1950s

Dagmar Jungmanová in dancing lessons, 1960s

"Don't look at the quantity" The motto, which was followed by Jan Žižka and later by Karel Mareš, who incorporated the slogan into the emblem of the 311th Czechoslovak Bomber Squadron of the RAF, Kosova Hora, June 2023

In 1951, by order of the Ministry of National Defence, the family of Karel Mareš was evicted from their Prague apartment. Prague was forbidden to General Mareš and they lived in a castle in the village of Kosová Hora near Sedlčany, where they lived in poor conditions.

Chief of Staff of the 22nd Helicopter Air Base Colonel Alois Matýska with Dagmar Jungman at the unveiling of the memorial plaque to her father General Karel Mareš, Tábor, 2015

Memorial plaque to General Karel Mareš on the wall of the cemetery church in Kosova Hora, June 2023

The current appearance of the castle in the village of Kosova Hora, where the family of General Karel Mareš lived since 1951

Monument to General Karel Mareš, Kosova Hora, June 2023

Aeroclub Tábor squadron flight in honour of General Karel Mareš, Tábor, 2015

Unveiling of the monument to Brigadier General Karel Mareš, Kosova Hora, 2018

The grave of Brigadier General Karel Mareš in Tábor

Karel Mareš died on 10 June 1960 and the last farewell to the war veteran took place at the Motol Crematorium in Prague. "They did not leave us alone even when he died. My mother was not even allowed to put his uniform in his coffin, he wished to be dressed in an air force uniform. She had to cut off the gold buttons, the spacers, everything. Only Kosovars came to the funeral - guys from the tractor and people from the farm who liked Dad. They loved him. The others were afraid to come," recalls the general's daughter.