Served at RAF Yatesbury, RAF West Freugh, RAF Bramcote, RAF Bitteswell, RAF Lindholme, RAF Tiree, RAF Dale, RAF Cairo West (LG224), RAF Holmsley South, RAF Blackbushe, RAF North Weald. Aircraft flown were Dominie, Proctor, Battle, Wellington, Tiger Moth, C47, B24, Warwick,

Flew on 14 bombing operations (1 day and 13 night) and 39 day anti-submarine sweeps with 304 Squadron. The bombing targets were Boulogne, Emden, Dunkerque, Cologne, Hamburg, Essen, Dortmund, Hamburg, Rostock, Bordeaux, Bremen. The anti-submarine sweeps were over the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Biscay.
His pilots on operations were Flying Officer Kucharski (35 operations), Sergeant Janski (1 operation), Flying Officer Zurek (16 operations), Sergeant Gotebiowski (1 operation).
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nick Cornwell-Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Essex]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Scotland--Argyll and Bute]]> Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway]]> Wales--Pembrokeshire]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Rostock]]> France]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> 1942-01-28]]> 1942-01-29]]> 1942-03-12]]> 1942-03-13]]> 1942-04-05]]> 1942-04-06]]> 1942-04-08]]> 1942-04-09]]> 1942-04-10]]> 1942-04-11]]> 1942-04-12]]> 1942-04-13]]> 1942-04-14]]> 1942-04-15]]> 1942-04-17]]> 1942-04-18]]> 1942-04-23]]> 1942-04-24]]> 1942-04-25]]> 1942-04-26]]> 1942-04-27]]> 1942-05-18]]> 1942-05-20]]> 1942-05-23]]> 1942-05-26]]> 1942-05-27]]> 1942-05-31]]> 1942-06-05]]> 1942-06-07]]> 1942-06-25]]> 1942-06-26]]> 1942-07-18]]> 1942-07-22]]> 1942-07-29]]> 1942-07-30]]> 1942-08-01]]> 1942-08-09]]> 1942-08-11]]> 1942-08-13]]> 1942-08-17]]> 1942-08-19]]> 1942-09-02]]> 1942-09-06]]> 1942-09-10]]> 1942-09-14]]> 1942-09-17]]> 1942-09-18]]> 1942-09-24]]> 1942-09-26]]> 1942-09-30]]> 1942-10-16]]> 1942-10-21]]> 1942-10-25]]> 1942-10-29]]> 1942-11-12]]> 1942-11-14]]> 1942-11-18]]> 1942-11-20]]> 1942-11-22]]> 1942-11-26]]> 1942-11-28]]> 1942-12-02]]> 1942-12-22]]> 1942-12-30]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>
The image is captioned 'I.V.Y. 304 NT 26/27.4.42 f8" --> T.X.X.'
On the reverse is handwritten 'Rostock'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Geolocated]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Rostock]]> 1942-04-26]]> 1942-04-27]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nogal, Jozef. Postcards]]> eng]]> Text]]> MNogalJ19110317-171129-020014]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Royal Air Force. Training Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Italy]]> Italy--Genoa]]> Italy--Milan]]> Germany]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Friedrichshafen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Berchtesgaden]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1940-12]]> 1941-01]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1945]]> 1958]]> 1963]]> 1975]]> At the end there is a biography of the officer in charge of Arnhem, Lt-Gen Sir Frederick Browning and his wife Daphne du Maurier.]]> Roger Millington]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> British Army]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Free French Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Letchworth]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> Wales--Penrhos]]> Egypt--Heliopolis (Extinct city)]]> Singapore]]> France--Cherbourg]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> France--Brest]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> France--Brest]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> France--L'Isle-Adam]]> France--Quiberon]]> France--Boulogne-Billancourt]]> Germany--Essen]]> France--Le Creusot]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> France--Caen]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Norway]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> England--Rochester (Kent)]]> Northern Ireland--Belfast]]> England--Longbridge]]> France--Arras]]> England--Darlington]]> Italy--Genoa]]> England--Longbridge]]> Yemen (Republic)--Aden]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Italy--Sicily]]> France--Normandy]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> Wales--Pwllheli]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leicester]]> England--Sunderland (Tyne and Wear)]]> Scotland--Edinburgh]]> England--Rochford]]> England--London]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> Scotland--Ayr]]> England--Friston (East Sussex)]]> England--Gravesend (Kent)]]> England--West Malling]]> England--Hailsham]]> England--Yelverton (Devon)]]> England--Bentwaters NATO Air Base]]> England--Great Dunmow]]> England--Heacham]]> England--Weybridge]]> Wales--Hawarden]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Old Sarum (Extinct city)]]> England--Kent]]> England--Folkestone]]> England--Hambleton (North Yorkshire)]]> England--York]]> Scotland--Scottish Borders]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Thurleigh]]> England--Darlington]]> England--Hitchin]]> England--Lancashire]]> Italy]]> France]]> Egypt]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Netherlands]]> Great Britain]]> Yemen (Republic)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Devon]]> England--Durham (County)]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Essex]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Worcestershire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Swindon (Wiltshire)]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1931]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Oscar Verhoeven]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1942-04-25]]> ]]>
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Geoff Burton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Poland]]> England--Devon]]> Scotland--Benbecula]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Terry Hancock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Scotland--Hebrides]]> Scotland--Benbecula]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1944-10-10]]> 1944-10-11]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-16]]> 1944-10-25]]> 1944-11-25]]> 1944-12-03]]> 1945-01-10]]> 1945-01-11]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-01-17]]> 1945-01-31]]> 1945-03-10]]> Information supplied with the collection states -
'RAF St. Eval, 304 squadron; my crew:-
From the left:
Air gunner/radio operator Sgt. Kucharek
First pilot - F/O - AFK JEZIORSKI
Navigator - F/O - T. BACZYNSKI
Air gunner/radio operator MASLANKA.
Air gunner/radio operator RUMAS
Photograph taken by second pilot - WITKOWSKI'
On the reverse is a post it note with 'Rok 1945 (Wiosna)' [Year 1945 (spring)] and the Polish original of the English text.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> pol]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> 1945]]>
Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> pol]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Poland]]> Singapore]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France--Paris]]> Poland--Warsaw]]> 1939-08-28]]> 1939-09-01]]> 1940]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1945]]>