Tomáš Lom

"I was in the rear part of the airplane. There was a little window in the floor and I could watch the hits through it. And since I reported the truth, not improving the distance from the target, he was annoyed with me. During one flyby, I told him I hadn't even seen the bomb, he just muttered something angrily. Maybe saying I was being asleep out there. Unfortunately, I was right. The bomb remained hanging in the airplane hanger. The pilot angrily closed the bomb reservoir, made an elegant evasive manuevre and the bomb fell on the reservoir, went off and broke everything in distance. I was lucky not to be hit by any fragments but the hydraulics of the undercarriage was torn apart."

"I sat down by the radar. Luckily, there were clear description. In theory, I knew what were the magnetron, klystron, detector and so on. So I was able to make it work, more or less. In a while, Cpt. Hořejší asked me: 'So, what do you see in that magical box of yours?' I read the data and told him: 'The coastline is seven kilometers towards the left and there is no obstacle ahead of us.' - 'I can see that myself,' he replied. 'I don't need that box of yours for that!' After a while, he nervously asked: 'And what do you see now?' I read the info for him once again. He said: 'Now, that is better. I can't see a thing as we are in a thick cloud.' Since then, we had some level of understanding."

"A young boy came to see me. He had the same qualification as I did. He told me he was supposed to serve with Cpt. Hořejší but that his friends were at Simet's, and whether I'd be so kind to swap my spot. I told him: 'If you organize it at the HQ, why not. I don't know anyone in either crew and don't care.' He made it happen and I started with Hořejší. I was lucky as hell because Simet was a lousy pilot and crashed his plane in a few weeks. Practically none of his crew had survived."