Date:	Wednesday 26 July 1944
Time:	01:00 approx
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF
Registration:	PB252
MSN:	BH-M
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Montizeau, Lailly-en-Val, Loiret département -   France
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Faldingworth UK
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Faldingworth at 23:00 hrs for an operation against Stuttgart in Germany.
Outward-bound, collided in the air near Orleans with a Canadian crew from RAF Squadron 103 and at 01:00 was parially abandoned. Flt Sgt Witrylak PAF (Polish Air Force)quickly made contact with the local Maquis and he arrived back in England on 20 August 1944. Those who died are buried in Orleans Main Cemtery.

Crew (All Polish Air Force):-
Pilot : Flight Sergeant Jan Danieluk PAF P/780992 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Jan Kabulski PAF P/781380 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Kazimierz Galat PAF P/2404 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Franciszek Witrylak PAF 782327
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant Albrecht Pagiello PAF P/794835 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Warrant Officer Kazimierz Wziatek PAF 792662
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Henryk Tadeusz Czyzyk PAF P/794365 [Killed]

The casualties lie at the Orleans Main Cemetery, France (47.920704 / 1.908637), which contains seventy-four Air Force graves, including the five Polish airmen identified above. At least sixty died in the service of Bomber Command. Of the remainder, twelve were members of 570 Squadron, one came from 247 Squadron, while Plt Off M A Ap Rhys-Price was non-aircrew, losing his life on 3 June 1940.

*Raid on Stuttgart - aircraft collided in the air with Lancaster III PM-G (ND903) from 103 squadron RAF and crashed near Orleans; Flt Sgt (bomb). Zbigniew Witrylak and top scorer WO Kazimierz Wziątek were saved, they escaped captivity and returned to the UK.

https://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=1430
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World war 1944 Page 352.
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.aerosteles.net/stelefr-laillyenval-lancaster&prev=search
*www.polishairforce.pl/dyw300straty.html
http://aviationforall.proboards.com/thread/5053/raf-faldingworth
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
26-Aug-2013 08:09	JINX	Added
19-Feb-2015 17:54	Jixon	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ]
26-Jun-2016 21:25	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
17-Feb-2018 17:15	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, ]
05-Feb-2020 20:21	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator, ]
24-Sep-2020 07:14	Anon.	Updated [Narrative, ]
07-Jun-2021 17:40	TigerTimon	Updated [Date, Time, Location, Source, ]
07-Jun-2021 17:41	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative, ]
18-Sep-2024 18:06	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]