Date of birth:

July 11th, 1918 (Langen)

Date of death:

June 20th, 1942 (North Sea)

Mentioned on:

Memorial Polish Airmen 1939-1945 Northolt

Nationality:

Polish (1918-1939, IInd Republic)

He served in the School of Non-Commissioned Officer Aviation for Young Persons in Bydgoszcz and then in aviation
military. He slipped by Romania to England and he trained to pilot bombing before being allocated to 300 Bomber Squadron of the Mazovia. In April 1942 he married an Englishwoman and unfortunately died just two months later 20/06/1942 as a pilot-navigator Vickers Wellington Mk.IV No. Z1215 (BH-E). This machine made a flight combat bombing target of Emden, most likely when they returned, between 00:00 and 3:00 (according to information from the archives of the Dutch) crashed in the North Sea. A German night fighter show it down and he killed the entire crew:

Sgt. Czeslaw Dziekoński
kpt.obs. Eugene Marian Lech
Sergeant. pil. Ludwik Michalski
Sec. rds. Stefan John Neulinger
Maj. rifleman. Antoni Kazimierz Szyszkowski
Maj. pil. Stanislaw Wardyński

The night fighter pilot was Ludwig Becker 6 / NJG2 (Nachtjagdgeschwader Leeuwarden).

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