Mira Slovak was born in Czechoslovakia and endured both the Nazi occupation and the brutal Russian liberation.
When Boeing began racing hydroplanes in the late 1950s, Mira was h.
He went to work for the CIA and was eventually sent to the US and given a job as Bill Boeing, Jr.\'s personal pilot.
When he could no longer tolerate life under the Communists, he hijacked an airliner and flew across the Iron Curtain to freedom.
He joined the Czech Air force, rising to captain by the age of twenty-one.
Mira Slovak was born in Czechoslovakia and endured both the Nazi occupation and the brutal Russian liberation