Mieczysław Glass © listakrzystka.pl Geboren:
16 november 1919, Warszawa
Overleden:
22 juni 1943, Crash 65 km W of Ijmuiden
Vak/rij/nummer:
Plot J. Coll. grave 5.
Locatie veldgraf:
Aangespoeld 5-7-1943
In de nacht van 21 op 22 juni 1943 is Wellington Mark X met registratienummer HE327 op weg naar Krefeld. Aan boord van de bommenwerper van squadron 300, herkenbaar aan de letters BH met identificatie letter ‘S’, zijn vijf bemanningsleden:
Tegen drie uur ’s nachts slaat, volgens het loss register , het noodlot toe als hun vliegtuig wordt neergeschoten boven de Noordzee door Hauptmann R. Sigmund of 10./NJG 1. Met bemanning verdwijnt het vliegtuig in de zee. Het lichaam van Glass spoelt aan op de Nederlandse kust op 5 juli. Hij vindt zijn laatste rustplaats op het kerkhof van Castricum.
Onderstaande foto (© IWM CH 10456 ) toont vijf vergelijkbare Wellingtons Mk X van het Poolse 300 Squadron “Ziemi Mazowieckiej” . De foto is gemaakt op 17 juni, slechts enkele dagen voor de noodlottige vlucht. Van de tweede bommenwerper is de identiteit ze zien ‘E’. Mogelijk is een van de andere wel ‘S’.
Dezelfde dag werd ook onderstaande groepsfoto gemaakt. Mogelijk dat hierop dus ook de bemanning nog is vastgelegd een paar dagen voor hun laatste vlucht.
THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947 (CH 10455) Group photograph of airmen of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron at RAF Hemswell. Wing Commander Mieczyslaw Kucharski, the CO of the Squadron, is standing in the middle of the first row (on the right of the left pillar). Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205235196
Het squadron vloog tot en met de tweemotorige Wellington vanaf het najaar 1940 tot medio 1944. Toen schakelde het over op de viermotorige Lancaster bommenwerper zoals in onderstaande fotocollectie (van het IWM) te zien is. In juni van dat jaar verloren ze in een nacht twee van hun vliegtuigen boven Nederland .
THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN THE AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMANY, 1942-1945 (CH 7350) Vickers Wellington Mark IV (Z1407, BH-Z), named ‘Zoska’, of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron on the ground at RAF Ingham, having lost most of its rear fuselage fabric through battle damage sustained on 4/5 September 1942 when raiding Bremen, Germany. In spite of a damaged wireless set, a badly working rudder, damaged flaps and no navigational instruments, the pilot, Pilot Officer Stanislaw Machej, w… Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205210254 THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947 (HU 106355) Final adjustments are being made to the cargo of mines before they are loaded into a waiting Vickers Wellington bomber of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron (BH-E, HF598) at RAF Faldingworth. The message on the mine reads ‘From Polish Airmen’ both in Polish and English. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205230375 THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947 (HU 106356) Giant mine is suitably inscribed before it’s loaded into a waiting Vickers Wellington bomber (BH-E, HF598) of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron. The message on the mine reads: ‘Od polskich lotników – From Polish Airmen’ both in Polish and English. RAF Faldingworth, 25 May 1944. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205230381 THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947 (HU 75016) Ground crew servicing an Avro Lancaster of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron at RAF Faldingworth, 25 April 1944. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205191550 THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947 (CH 10459) Portrait of Wing Commander Mieczyslaw Kucharski, the CO of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron, at RAF Hemswell, 17 June 1943. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205235198 THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947 (CH 10458) Drawing of a dwarf decorating a fuselage of a Vickers Wellington Mark X bomber plane of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron at RAF Hemswell. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205235197 THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947 (CH 10457) Ground crews of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron working on their Vickers Wellington Mark Xs at Hemswell, Lincolnshire, as another aircraft of the Squadron makes a low pass over the flight line, 17 June 1943.
Note different positions of the Polish Air Force chessboards on the aircraft in front, embelished with a dwarf image, and BH-E behind, and the low vision code letters, improving the night camou… Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205382050 THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN THE BOMBING OF GERMANY CAMPAIGN, 1942-1945 (HU 128225) The Lancaster is LL804, BH-F, ‘Lady in the Champagne Glass’, commanded by Wing Commander Teofil Pozyczka, the CO of the squadron. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205400338 THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947 (HU 111733) Groundcrew of a Polish Air Force bomber squadron, very likely of No. 300 Squadron, scribbling their best wishes to the enemy on a bomb at RAF Hemswell, 15 August 1941. The inscription in Polish reads: ‘Warszawiacy Berlinowi – From Varsovians for Berlin’. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205232795 THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947 (HU 111734) Groundcrew of a Polish Air Force bomber squadron, very likely of No. 300 Squadron, scribbling their best wishes to the enemy on a bomb at RAF Hemswell, 15 August 1941. The inscription reads: ‘The best wishes from Polish boys’. Note military censor’s marks in the left corner of the image pointing potential targets for the enemy. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205232796 THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947 (HU 128888) Ground mechanics of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron enjoying a short break in the open air after making their Avro Lancaster bombers ready for a next sortie. Note the Lancaster BH-E, PA160 in the background.
Photograph very likely taken at RAF Faldingworth, summer 1944. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205376843 THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947 (HU 128268) Flying Officer Jerzy Rózanski (foreground) and his crew of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron standing in line at RAF Faldingworth, early June 1944. The crew perished during the bombing sortie over Gelsenkirchen shortly after this picture was taken, on 12/13 June 1944,
Note a Lancaster bomber flying over the airfield and another one parked in the background (ED327, BH-R – lost in August 1944). Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205402356 THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947 (HU 111730) Airmen of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron cherish their squadron pet mascot, a little dog, while standing by their Avro Lancaster bomber plane, serial number NN748, December 1944. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205232792
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