the french air force was also forming free czechoslovak units. košař was a naturalized polish citizen, but balejka, františek and pavlovič went to see the czechoslovak air attaché to ask to be transferred. but the attaché accused them of deserting the foreign legion, so františek accused the czechoslovak air force of failing to evacuate its aircraft to poland when germany invaded in march 1939, whereupon the attaché called the french police. the police found the trio's polish military identity documents to be in order and refused to arrest them. balejka, františek and pavlovič remained with their free polish units.