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Archive Report: Allied Forces

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08/09.08.1941 No. 301 Squadron Wellington IC T2625 GR-B F/O. Liniewski

Operation: Hamburg

Date: 8/9th August 1941

Unit: No. 301 (Polish) Squadron

Type: Wellington IC

Serial: T2625

Code: GR-B

Base: R.A.F. Hemswell

Location: Nieuweschans, Holland.

Pilot : F/O. Michal Liniewski P-81616 P.A.F. Age 29. Killed

Fl/ Eng: F/O. Jan Leonard Maria Wiszniewski P-0333 P.A.F. Age 31. Killed

Nav: P/O. Stanislaw Cioch P-1445 P.A.F. Age 26. Killed

W/Op/Air/Gnr: Sgt. Edward Kozlowski P-782123 P.A.F. Age 22. Killed

Air/Gnr: Sgt. Zenon Sylwester Bąderski P-782133 P.A.F. P.o.W. No: 90 Stalag Luft Barth Vogelsang 

Air/Gnr: Sgt. Ignacy Gacoń P-782212 P.A.F. P.o.W. No: 91 Stalag Mühlberg-Elbe 

REASON FOR LOSS:

Took off at 22.26 hrs to join 44 Wellingtons to bomb the railway and shipyards in Hamburg. Target was covered in cloud and only scattered bombing resulted. 5 people on the ground were killed and 8 injured. 20 homes were damaged.

                

Above left to right: F/O. Liniewski,  F/O. Wiszniewski, P/O. Cioch and Sgt. Kozlowski

This was the only aircraft on this raid lost being shot down by a night fighter from 4./NJG1. Oblt. Ludwig Becker (1) claimed this attacking at 5.200 mtrs and the aircraft was shot down at 00.25 hrs crashing near Nieuweschans. 

(1) This was Oblt. Becker’s second victory out of 44 claimed by the time he went missing after combat with U.S. aircraft on the 27/28th February 1943 north of Schiermonnikoog

Right: Hannover War Cemetery

Burial details:

F/O. Michal Liniewski Hanover War Cemetery.Plot XIII Row D Grave 5. N.o.K details currently not available.

F/O. Jan Leonard Maria WiszniewskiHanover War Cemetery. Plot XIII Row D Grave 7. N.o.K details currently not available.

P/O. Stanislaw Cioch. Hanover War Cemetery. Plot XIII Row D Grave 6. N.o.K details currently not available.

Sgt. Edward Kozlowski. Hanover War Cemetery. Plot XIII Row D Grave 4. N.o.K details currently not available.

Researched for relatives of the crew. With thanks to: Robert Gretzyngier, Woitek Matusiak, Wadldemar Wojcik and Josef Zielinski for the use of some of these photographs. Bill Chorley – ‘Bomber Command Losses Vol 3’, Dr. Theo E.W. Boiten and Mr. Roderick J. Mackenzie – ‘Nightfighter War Diaries Vol’s. 1 and  2’, Martin Middlebrook ‘Bomber Command War Diaries’.

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Acknowledgements
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 MWO 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', Archiwum - Polish Air Force Archive (on this site), Anna Krzystek, Tadeusz Krzystek - 'Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii', Franek Grabowski, 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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