Operation: Special Operations
Date: 12/13th July 1943 (Monday/Tuesday)
Unit: No. 138 Squadron
Type: Halifax II
Serial: JD155
Code: NF-M
Base: RAF Tempsford, Bedfordshire.
Location: Chateau d' lillebec at St.-Paul-sur-Risle, France
Pilot: Fl/Lt. Julian Morawski P-1096 PAF Age 29. Killed
Pilot 2: Fl/Sgt. Edward Joński 782677 PAF Age 27. Killed
Nav: Fl/Lt. Napoleon Stanisław Lewicki P-0395 PAF Age 30. Killed
Fl/Eng: Sgt. Konrad Józef Tomaszewski 784540 PAF Age 23. Killed
W/Op/Air/Gnr: Fl/Sgt. Leon Stanislaw Bonk 792591 PAF Age 23. Killed
Air/Gnr: Fl/Sg. Edmund Rusiński 783974 PAF Age 26. Killed
Air/Gnr: Fl/Sgt. Jan Nawrot 781688 PAF Age 25. Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
Took off from RAF Tempsford on SOE Operation Roach 94 / Roach 92 - Supply drop for French Partisans - and headed for France. Crashed at 00:30 hours at Chateau d' lillebec at St.-Paul-sur-Risle, France.
Grainville-Langannerie (top four) all have the incorrect date marked as 1944
Fl/Lt. Julian Morawski. Grainville-Langannerie, France. Plot VIII, Row D, Grave 9. Born 23rd December 1913
Fl/Sgt. Edward Joński. Grainville-Langannerie, France. Plot VIII, Row D, Grave 10. Born 22nd January 1916
Fl/Lt. Napoleon Stanislaw Lewicki. Pont-Audemer Communal Cemetery - Eure, France. Row C. Coll. grave 17-18. Born 2nd February 1913
Sgt. Konrad Józef Tomaszewski. Polish Cemetery, Grainville-Langannerie, France. Plot Viii, Row D, Grave 27/45. Born 17 February 1920.
Fl/Sgt. Leon Stanislaw Bonk. Pont-Audemer Communal Cemetery - Eure, France. Row C. Coll. grave 17-18. Born 1st November 1919. Silver Cross, Order of Virtuti Militari, Krzyzem Walecznych
Fl/Sg. Edmund Rusiński. Grainville-Langannerie Cemetery, France. Plot VIII, Row D, Grave 12. Born 24 April 1917
Fl/Sgt. Jan Nawrot. Pont-Audemer Communal Cemetery - Eure, France. Row B Grave 16. Born 6th August 1917.
Researched and dedicated to the relatives of this crew with thanks to Kate Tame for grave photographs, Bill Chorley - 'Bomber Command Losses' Vol. 4, Dr. Theo E.W. Boiten and Mr. Roderick J. Mackenzie - 'Nightfighter War Diaries Vol's. 1 and 2', Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Tom Kracker - 'Kracker Luftwaffe Archives'.
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them. - Laurence
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