W/O Frantisek Dolezal was born on 14th September 1909 in Ceska Trebova, Czechoslavakia. Frantisek joined 310 Squadron after a period of time at the Czechoslovak Depot at Cosford.
After a short time retraining on Hurricanes, Frantisek was transferred to 19 Squadron, where he passed retraining on the Spitfire and became an operational pilot.
On 11th September he was wounded on foot during patrol over London. His Spitfire I N3046 was damaged at 16.05 in a fight with an enemy Bf109. On 29th October, he finished his short service at 19 Squadron and he returned to 310 Squadron where he became the leader of the flight "A" on 12th December 1940.

From 7th April 1942, Frantisek was the leader of whole 310 Squadron and on 1st September 1942 he was awarded D.F.C. for his excellent service.

On 15th January 1943 he left unit for the rest and on 1st April 1943 he returned to operational duty and he became the leader of the Czechoslovak Fighter Wing which consisted from 310, 312 and 313 Squadrons.
On 17th June 1944 Frantisek obtained D.S.O. for his perfect commanding skill.

On 1st February 1944 he finished his operational duty and he was transfered to the Czechoslovak Inspectorate General (CIG) in London.

In November 1944 he left Great Britain and with W/Cdr Stanislav Dvorsky (navigator from 311 Czechoslovak Bomber Squadron) he sailed to USA. There they graduated on Command and General Staff College US Army in Kansas in December 1945.

After his return to Great Britain in January 1945 he served as staff officer at Czechoslovak Inspectorate General (CIG) till the end of war.

Frantisek returned to Czecholovakia as the one of the first RAF pilots, on 17th May 1945. Shortly after his return to Czechoslovakia, on 4th October 1945, he was flying as passenger and was killed in the crash of Siebel Si 204 at Bucovice in Moravia.

Frantisek was one of the most popular commanding officers in history of Czechoslovak Air Force.

He was many-sided officer, very inteligent, jokeful and ever optimist. He like flying, art and music. He was good sportsman, so 310 Squadron under his commanding won not only dogfights but football matches too.

In position of wing commander, Frantisek had complete card-index of all his pilots with many details from their service and private life in his memory.