Date: 18/19th May 1943
Unit: No. 307 (Polish) Squadron
Type: Mosquito II N.F.II
Serial: DZ288
Code: EW-Z
Base: Fairwood Common
Location: Brittany, France
Pilot: Fl/Lt. Antoni Dziegielewski P-0373 P.A.F. Age 26. Killed
Navigator: Fl//Lt. Adam Wegiel P-0045 P.A.F. Age 34. Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
Shot down on Ranger patrol during the diversionary raid whilst the Moehne and Eder dams were being attacked by 617 Squadron. After shooting up several locomotives, searchlights and two control boats at the end of seaplane flare paths one of which sunk.
Hit by A/A fire both were killed.
Above L - R: Fl/Lt. Antoni Dziegielewski, Fl//Lt. Adam Wegiel (Courtesy of Gretzyngier, Matusiak, Wojcik and Zielinski)
307 Squadron Mosquito
Burial details:
Both missing - commemorated at the superb Polish Memorial, Warsaw.
With thanks to: Robert Gretzyngier, Woitek Matusiak, Wadldemar Wojcik and Josef Zielinski for the use of some of these photographs
