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Operation: Patrol
Date: 24th August 1940 (Saturday)
Unit: No. 501 Squadron
Type: Hurricane I
Serial: P3141
Code: SD-W
Base: RAF Gravesend
Location: North Sea off Dover
Pilot: P/O. Pawel Zenker 76714 PAF Age 26. Missing
REASON FOR LOSS:
On the 18th August 1940 he had been credited for shooting down the Luftwaffe ace Hptm. Horst ‘Jacob’ Tietzen (1) of 5./JG51, over the Thames estuary.
Encountered Do17’s and Bf109’s over Dover. P/O. Zener was last seen at 10:15 hrs. to be chasing a Bf109 over the North Sea and failed to return.
501 Squadron lost another aircraft during the day, P/O. K.R. Aldridge broke his arm during baling out of his Hurricane I L1865 SD-R over West Kingsdon at 16:35 hrs.
P/O. Pawel Zenker remains missing. Commemorated on the Warsaw Memorial to the missing and also at the Polish memorial at Northolt, England. Born on the 25th December 1914 at Chocicza, Poland.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember
them. - Laurence
Binyon
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