Operation: Patrol

Date: 04th September 1940 (Wednesday)

Unit: No. 111 Squadron

Type: Hurricane IIa

Serial: Z2309

Code: JU-?

Base: RAF Croydon, South London

Location: English Channel - 5 miles East Folkestone

Pilot: P/O. Janusz Maciński 76721 PAF Age 24. Missing - believed killed

REASON FOR LOSS:

During patrol engaged Bf109’s and was lost presumably over the channel at 09:15 hrs. Some reports state that he had baled out, but rescue was ineffective with no trace of the pilot or aircraft.

Also lost at the same time and location was 22 year old, Fl/Lt. David Campbell Bruce 39853 RAF from Kilburn, London, missing, commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

During 1976 an aircraft was excavated by the Brenzett Aeronautical Museum which they claim it to be Z 2309.

The location that they recovered the Hurricane was Dene Farm, West Stourmouth, 20 miles NNE from Folkestone.

Burial details:

P/O. Janusz Maciński. Missing - commemorated on the Memorial to missing airman in Warsaw and Polish Memorial at Northolt. Born on 12th June 1916, from Lódź, Poland.