Date: 16th September 1941
Unit: No. 306 (Polish) Squadron "City of Torun"
Type: Spitfire VB
Serial: AB993
Coded: UZ-S
Location: Not known as yet
Pilot: Sgt. Stanislaw Wieprzkowicz Age 22 784740 P.A.F. Killed (D.O.B. 30/07/1915. Niedniewice, Poland)
REASON FOR LOSS:
Took off at 17.45 hrs for an offensive sweep over St. Omer, France. Shot down it is thought, by Oblt. Muncheberg of JG26. However another Spitfire from 315 Squadron was also lost on this sweep but that has been claimed by JG2.
Sgt. Stanislaw Wieprzkowicz (Photograph courtesy of Peter Sikora)
Oblt. Muncheberg of JG26
Burial Details:
Unknown burial details. Remembered on Polish War Memorial and also on the superb Pole Mokotowskie, Warsaw. (Shown)
Research by Peter Sikora. Further research by David King (Aircrew Remembrance Society April 2009) With thanks to the following: Bill Chorley - "Bomber Command Losses", Theo Boiten - "German Nightfighter War Diaries", Martin Middlebrook "Bomber Command War Diaries". The superb work of the C.W.G.C. "Fighter Command Losses" - Norman Franks. Robert Gretzyngier, Woitek Matusiak, Wadldemar Wojcik and Josef Zielinski for Polish information that we may have used.
