Date:	Wednesday 19 July 1944
Time:	02:20 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk II
Owner/operator:	300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF
Registration:	PB171
MSN:	BH-K
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea off Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Faldingworth UK
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Faldingworth at 23:15 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Scholven-Buer in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Walter Briegleb of the 10./NJG 3, who was flying a Junkers Ju 88 G-1 from Düsseldorf airfield in Germany.
All are commemorated on the Northolt Memorial. Most were engaged on their 28th sortie. This aircraft was manned by an all Polish crew:

WO J Zoltanski (KIA)
Flt Lt S Ostaszewski (KIA)
Flt Sgt S Szychowski (KIA)
Fg Off J J Bregman (KIA)
Flt Sgt F Janicki (KIA)
Flt Sgt I Ratajczak (KIA)
Flt Sgt S J Mamak (KIA)
WO S Stysiak (KIA)

The crew are commemorated by a tree and plaque. See source 5. In addition Flying Officer Jerzy Bregman is commemorated on a grave in Richmond-upon-Thames near London. See source 6.

1. Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
2. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 334.
3. http://www.aircrewremembered.com/zoltanski-josef.html
4. Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
5. https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/92666
6. https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/107390

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Aug-2013 13:40	JINX	Added
19-Feb-2015 17:53	Jixon	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ]
23-Jun-2016 15:28	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
17-Feb-2018 17:15	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, ]
05-Feb-2020 20:21	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Operator, ]
19-Oct-2020 17:05	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
11-Jan-2025 07:18	Richard	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]