One of the Czech legends of the Battle of Britain, Josef Balejka died on Wednesday at the age of 87. As a pilot he served throughout the war, after an extraordinary escape to England. David Vaughan looks back at the life of an exceptional man who knew both adventure and tragedy. Josef Balejka died in his beloved home town of Valasske Klobouky in the rolling hills on the Czech-Slovak border. Before the war he was one of just a few hundred Czechoslovak pilots trained to fly the most up-to-date fighter planes. When Hitler occupied the Czech Lands in March 1939,...