Z činnosti leteckých instruktorů generálmajora Jana Reindla v Egyptě během Suezské krize
Activities of the Flight Instructors that Belonged to the Group of Jan Reindl, a Major General in Egypt, during the Suez Crisis

Summary/Abstract: Having the Soviet support Czechoslovakia in 1950s came to represent the main weapon supplier to Egypt under Nasser. As the Egyptian Armed Forces needed not only arms and equipment but also soldiers able to use the imported technology on the battlefield, contracts about the training of Egyptian specialists were concluded. The training was held in Czechoslovakia as well as on Egyptian soil regarding the specific local conditions. This brief study aims to depict what where these foreign activities like or what problems they encountered. It tries to give an insight into the work of instructors that belonged to the group of Jan Reindl, an Air Force major general. The group did the tactical training of Egyptian pilots with Mig-15bis, i.e. the jet fighters that were imported to Egypt from Czechoslovakia. All this is put into context of the events in Near East at that time. It was the Suez Crisis and the following conflict that significantly affected the activities and members of the group. The study is based on the materials housed in the Military Historical Archive in Prague (the fonds of the Central Political Administration, the Central Cadre Administration, the General Headquarters office of the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces), in the Administrative Archives of the Czech Army in Olomouc (the fonds about professional soldiers) and the materials housed in the National Archives of the Czech Republic in Prague (the fonds of the Defence Security Department of the Central Committee of the Comunist Party).

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