Operation: Training
Date: 29th December 1942
Unit: No. 602 Squadron
Type: Spitfire VB
Serial: BM310
Base: RAF Perranporth, Cornwall.
Location: Not yet known
Pilot: F/O. Mieczyslaw Antoni Widziszewski P-1695 PAF Age 22. Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
No details on this training loss and welcome any further information.
(1) P/O. Tadeusz Lisowski was killed later on the 23rd December 1944, flying with 315 squadron in a Mustang III HB885 PK-J on a ramrod to Norway.
Burial Details:
F/O. Mieczyslaw Antoni Widziszewski. Southport (Duke Street) Cemetery. Section S1 Grave 213. Born on 17th April 1920 in Brzesc, Poland. Next of kin details not available as yet.
With thanks to the Grangemouth Air Cadets and the Grangemouth Spitfire Memorial Trust who provided me with so much information and assistance during my visit, Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik and Józef Zieliński - 'Ku Czci Połeglyçh Lotnikow 1939-1945'.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember
them. - Laurence
Binyon
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