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Operation: Kiel, Germany
Date: 23/24th July 1944
Unit: No. 300 Squadron (Polish)
Type: Lancaster III
Serial: LM488
Code: BH-D
Base: RAF Faldingworth
Location: Schlesen, Germany
Pilot: Fl/Sgt. Antoni Ostrowski 794545 PAF Age 27. Killed
Nav: P/O. Eugeniusz Horwacki P-2410 PAF Age 25. Killed
Fl/Eng: W/O. Józef Tomiec 780750 PAF Age 27. Killed
Air/Bmr: Fl/Lt. Mieczysław Ostrowski P-2119 PAF Age 27. Killed
W/Op/Air/Gnr: Sgt. Bohdan Grudziński 794849 PAF Age 26. Killed
Air/Gnr: Fl/Sgt. Jan Stefan Tadeusz Zatloukal 783237 PAF Age 24. Killed
Air/Gnr: Fl/Sgt. Stanislaw Rymaszewski 704796 PAF Age 21. Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
Part of a raid consisting of 519 Lancasters, 100 Halifaxes and 10 Mosquitoes to attack the German city of Kiel.
Plt.Off. Mieczyslaw Ostrowski standing 6th from the left (courtesy Krzysztof Chris Ciesielski)
The crew were all buried locally but since they have all been reinterred in Hamburg Cemetery.
Fl/Sgt. Antoni Ostrowski. Hamburg Cemetery. 4A.E. Grave 1-7 (Coll.) Born 04th August 1913, Grajewo, Poland.
P/O. Eugeniusz Horwacki. Hamburg Cemetery. Born 12th November 1919 Przemyśl, Poland.
W/O. Józef Tomiec. Hamburg Cemetery. Born 19th February 1917, Smółki, Poland.
Fl/Lt. Mieczysław Ostrowski. Hamburg Cemetery. Born 11th May 1917, Poland.
Sgt. Bohdan Grudziński. Hamburg Cemetery. Born 21st June 1918, Michnów, Russia.
Fl/Sgt. Jan Stefan Tadeusz Zatloukal. Hamburg Cemetery. Born 12th December 1920, Bielsk, Poland.
Fl/Sgt. Stanislaw Rymaszewski. Hamburg Cemetery. Born 16th August 1922, Poland.
Aircrew Remembered would like to thank Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wojcik and Josef Zielinski for the use of some of these photographs. We highly recommend their publications regarding WW2 Polish Air Force and are happy to provide other researchers information where they can be purchased. Thanks to Krzysztof Chris Ciesielski for the image of the No. 8 Polish Course Officer School for Plt.Off. Mieczyslaw Ostrowski.
RS 10.05.2019 - Addition of Officer school photograph
KTY 02.08.2015 Page updated
RS 10.05.2019 - Addition of Officer school photograph
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