The last surviving pilot from the RAF’s WWII Czechoslovak squadrons, Emil
Boček, presented the Moral Authority prize to nine people from the Czech
Republic and Slovakia on Saturday evening, Czech Television reported. The
awards were handed out for the first time during a Christmas concert
organised by World War II veterans.
Among the recipients were the head of the Czech Roman Catholic Church,
Cardinal Dominik Duka, the director of Prague’s Central Military
Hospital, Miroslav Zavoral, and the supreme state attorney, Lenka
Bradáčová.
Emil Boček, who is 96, also handed out another honour, the Emil Boček
Memorial Medal. It was received by active soldiers and police officers and
the ministers of interior and defence, Jan Hamáček and Lubomír Metnar.