Remains of Czech fighter pilot discovered after 52 years

The remains of a Czech pilot who served with the British Royal Air Force during WWII have finally been discovered 52 years after his death. Pilot Josef Bryks was a RAF fighter pilot and was shot down over France in 1941. He survived German imprisonment but was given a 10-year sentence by the Communists when they came to power in Czechoslovakia. He died at the Jáchymov uranium mines in 1957. The daily Dnes reported on Saturday that historians have now found out that his ashes were secretly buried eight years after his death at Prague’s Motol cemetery. His surviving wife, now living in the US, said she could not believe the news.