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Two of the future parachutists Jindrich Coupek (with leather collar) and Vladimír Hauptvogel (far right). Recreation accompanied the days of vigorous training. They were ordinary young men, keen to enjoy their lives although they knew that after their drop to the homeland, their future lives would be a matter of good luck and chance.... Only 45 out of 91 dropped Czechoslovak volunteers lived to see the end of the war.