Operation: Photo Sortie
Date: 01st February 1943 (Monday)
Unit: No. 41 Squadron
Type: Spitfire Vb
Serial: X4279
Code: EB-C
Base: RAF Llandedr, Gwynedd, Wales
Location: Beach West of Pwllheli, Wales
Pilot: Sgt. Jozef Bednarz 782356 PAF Age 22. Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
Crashed on the beach whilst low flying on a photo reconnaissance sortie.
No further details available - are you able to provide any?
41 Squadron Spitfire's later in 1944 (courtesy I.W.M)
Sgt. Jozef Bednarz. Portmadoc Public Cemetery - Carnarvonshire. Grave 620. Born 13th June 1920 in Rymasze, Poland. (Now Belarus) Next of kin details not available.
Researched for relatives of the pilot with thanks for further information to The Grangemouth Air Cadets and the Grangemouth Spitfire Memorial Trust who provided me with so much information and assistance during my visit, Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik and Józef Zieliński - 'Ku Czci Połeglyçh Lotnikow 1939-1945'.
KTY with corrected information on serial number sent by Jack Brook - September 2015.
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them. - Laurence
Binyon
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