List of Czechs - Military

Military

  • Josef Bryks, pilot
  • Alois Eliáš, army officer
  • Josef František, pilot ace
  • Radola Gajda, army officer
  • Karel Kuttelwascher, general
  • František Moravec, military intelligence officer
  • František Peřina, pilot
  • Prokop the Great, Hussite leader
  • Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, field marshal
  • Ludvík Svoboda, general, president
  • Jan Syrový, general, prime minister
  • Albrecht von Wallenstein, warlord during Thirty-Years War
  • Leo Sviha,Generalissimo (1871-1974)

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