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ŚWIERZ Mieczysław
ppor. r/nawig. tech.
P 0558
3.8.1918 w. Zakopane
R.A.F. Polish
307 Sqdn.
12.4.1942, Beer Head, U.K.
Exeter Higher Cemetery, U.K.
Plot Section ZK, Grave 53

O.R.B. Exeter

22.50 Beaufighter IIF. R2457 crashed into the sea one mile South of 
Beer Head. 

Both members of this crew, S.Ldr Smok, Pilot, and F.O. Swierz, 
Observer (Radio) are missing and believed killed. 

The course of accident is unknown. 

Beaufighters immediately after the crash took off and dropped flares 
in the vicinity of the crash but nothing beyond small fragments of 
wreckage could be observed.

Source: http://orb.polishaf.pl/unit/307sqn

[His name is mentioned on the Polish Air Force memorial at Northolt, U.K.]

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