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Archive Report: Allied Forces

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316 Squadron Spitfire Vc EE683 UZ-V Fl/Sgt. Bondarczuk, English Channel, Ramrod 250

Operation: Ramrod 250 II

Date: 27th September 1943

Unit: No. 306 Squadron (Polish)

Type: Spitfire VC

Serial: EE683

Code: UZ-V

Location: English Channel

Pilot: Fl/Sgt. Arkadiusz Bondarczuk P-793159 PAF Age 26. Missing

REASON FOR LOSS:

Shot down by what is thought to have been a Fw190 from JG26 over the English Channell, following combat in the morning. 

  

  

58 Operational Training Unit (OTU) Grangemouth, Scotland. Course 17-1 (High resolution copy available for this and other 58 OTU courses in Grangemouth)

Front row: Sgt. Hardy, F/O. Kuzniar, P/O. Jelinski, P/O. Hoben, Sq/Ldr. Hyde, F/O. Tigler-Wybrandi, F/O. Klink, F/O. Domanski, Sgt. Sayers.
Rear row: Sgt. Holbert, Sgt. Wood, Sgt. Karczmarz, Sgt. Bondarczuk, Sgt. Lucyszyn, Sgt. Bonie, Sgt. Thompson, Sgt. Mildeau, Sgt. Evans.

  

Burial Details:

None, body not recovered - commemorated on the Polish War Memorial at Northolt and also the Polish Airman Memorial, Warsaw, Poland.

Fl/Sgt. Arkadiusz Bondarczuk. Polish War Memorial at Northolt and Warsaw. From Zdolbunow, Poland. NoK details currently not available - are you able to assist completion of these and any other information?

Research by Peter Sikora (Historian, author) for Aircrew Remembered.

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Sources used by us in compiling Archive Reports include: Bill Chorley - 'Bomber Command Losses Vols. 1-9, plus ongoing revisions', Dr. Theo E.W. Boiten and Mr. Roderick J. Mackenzie - 'Nightfighter War Diaries Vols. 1 and 2', Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt - 'Bomber Command War Diaries', Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Tom Kracker - Kracker Luftwaffe Archives, Michel Beckers, Major Fred Paradie (RCAF) and Captain François Dutil (RCAF) - Paradie Archive (on this site), Jean Schadskaje, Major Jack O'Connor USAF (Retd.), Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik and Józef Zieliński - 'Ku Czci Połeglyçh Lotnikow 1939-1945', Andrew Mielnik: Archiwum - Polish Air Force Archive (on this site), Anna Krzystek, Tadeusz Krzystek - 'Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii', Franek Grabowski, Polish graves: https://niebieskaeskadra.pl/, PoW Museum Żagań, Norman L.R. Franks 'Fighter Command Losses', Stan D. Bishop, John A. Hey MBE, Gerrie Franken and Maco Cillessen - Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces, Vols 1-6, Dr. Theo E.W. Boiton - Nachtjagd Combat Archives, Vols 1-13. Aircrew Remembered Databases and our own archives. We are grateful for the support and encouragement of CWGC, UK Imperial War Museum, Australian War Memorial, Australian National Archives, New Zealand National Archives, UK National Archives and Fold3 and countless dedicated friends and researchers across the world.
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