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| Date: | Friday 2 March 1945 |
| Time: | morning |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | NG501 |
| MSN: | BH-U |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Zülpicher Straße - Gottfried Straße at Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Faldingworth, Lincolnshire |
Takeoff at 07:14 hrs for an operation to Köln.
The aircraft was hit by enemy fighters and crashed. The crew rests at five cemeteries throughout Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Wladyslaw Wyganowski PAF P/847 [Killed] Hotton War Cemetery in Luxembourg province, Belgium
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Jacek Filek PAF P/780727 [Killed] Lommel Polish War Cemetery in Limburg province, Belgium
Navigator : Sergeant Edmund Kulikowski PAF P/704443 [Killed] Lommel Polish War Cemetery in Limburg province, Belgium
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Jozef Babiarz PAF P/2732 [Killed] Lommel Polish War Cemetery in Limburg province, Belgium
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant Jan Roman Horobiowski PAF P/705005 [Killed] Reichswald War Cemetery in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Stefan Chetnicki PAF P/704989 [Killed] Breda Polish War Cemetery in Noord-Brabant province, the Netherlands / initially buried Margraten cemetery in Limburg province, reburied at Amersfoort in Utrecht province, the Netherlands
Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Boleslaw Filipiak PAF P/705000 [Killed] Venray War Cemetery in Limburg province, the Netherlands / initially buried American Cemetery at Margraten, Limburg province
Hotton War Cemetery, Belgium (50.262553 / 5.447110)
Lommel War Cemetery, Belgium (51.190271 / 5.305146)
Polish Memorial, Northolt (51.548730 / -0.400127)
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany (51.740880 / 6.082017)
Venray War Cemetery, Netherlands (51.529128 / 5.955388)
Sources:
SGLO database - https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/ahome/lossregister/results?sglo=T5335A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Faldingworth
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database http://robdavistelford.co.uk/webspace/raf_bc
Media:
Polish airman buried at Hotton from 300 Sq RAF #WW2 pic.twitter.com/sW25WuO3T7
— Paul Reed (@sommecourt) June 5, 2013Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Feb-2020 11:33 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 28-Feb-2020 14:19 | Xindel XL | Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator, ] |
| 27-Jun-2022 13:16 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location, Source, ] |
| 13-May-2025 06:40 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
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