Rank
Service	
Born
Unit
Regiment
Date of death
Today buried
Grave

LEŚNIEWICZ Jan
plut. r/op. strz
792916
23.10.1919 Skierniewice
R.A.F. Polish
138 Sqdn.
12.4.1943 Douvres la Délivrande, Calvados, France
Churchyard, Douvres la Délivrande, France
Row 4, Grave 7

[Click for more details]




Date
Aircraft
Squadron
Took off	
Target
Cause
Crashed 

Fate Crew


12.4.1943
Halifax BB340, code NF-D 
138 Sqdn
from Tempsford
SOE mission over France
Outbound hit by light flak
at Douvres la Délivrande, Calvados, France

plut. r/op. strz. Leśniewicz Jan  (PAF) killed
F/O. pil. Korpowski Bolesław (PAF) evaded and reached 
England via Gibraltar on 1.6.1943.
Sgt A.N. Dent (RAF) and Sgt G. Evans (RAF) evaded as well.
Prisoner of War:
W/O pil. Jensen Stanisław (PAF)
F/O naw. Iżycki (PAF)
Sgt Zaborowski Leszek (PAF)
Sgt Urbański Hieronim (PAF)

Two agents aboard:
the French Claude Jumeaux and the Brutish Lee Graham survived both
but the French agent died in captivity.

HOME     ABBREVIATIONS     ALPHABET