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[06.05.2006 17:19 UTC] Ian Willoughby  Legendary World War II
pilot Frantisek Perina dies  One of the greatest Czech heroes of
World War II, General Frantisek Perina, has died in Prague at
the age of 95. General Perina won a reputation as an excellent
fighter pilot during the Battles of France and Britain, but was
forced out of the Czechoslovak Army by the Communists after the
war. He went into exile in 1949 and spent many years in Britain
and the United States before returning to the Czech Republic in
1993. The general received many state honours both at home and
abroad, including the Czech Order of the White Lion.  Prague
court exonerates pilot victim of Communist show trials  A court
in Prague has exonerated another Czech World War II pilot, Josef
Bryks, Mlada fronta Dnes reported. After serving with the RAF
and spending time in a German prisoner-of-war camp, Bryks was
sentenced to hard labour in a Communist show trial; he died in
the 1950s wh