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Who is this Polish BoB Pilot?

Hello Chaps,
Who is this pilot?

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By: RAF Millom - 28th March 2008 at 09:58

Further info can be found here

http://www.south-lancs-aviation.co.uk/New%20South%20Lancs%20Aviation/v7188r7187_r3936_and_r7656.htm

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By: RAF Pilot - 27th March 2008 at 21:04

Thank you!

Hello VoyTech,
Thank you very much for your answer, I tried to find this picture on google or yahoo but I have not luck.

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By: VoyTech - 26th March 2008 at 14:18

Looks like Eugeniusz Fiedorczuk to me. Not exactly a BoB pilot, but very close.
Born on 28 October 1918 at Chita in Russia of Polish parents, he graduated from the Polish Air Force College in the last pre-WW2 class, commissioned on 1 September 1939. A pilot in a liaison unit during the Polish campaign in 1939. In France posted to GC I/145 ‘Varsovie’ – the only all-Polish fighter unit to become operational before the fall of France. Evacuated to Britain in June 1940. Trained briefly in No. 5 OTU, then posted to No. 303 on 5 November – just too late to qualify for the BoB title. In January 1941 re-posted to No. 315 Polish Sqn then forming. On 24 May 1941 he shared in what was in fact No. 315’s first victory (a Ju88), but was never claimed as the pilots (F/Lt Bornislaw Mickiewicz was the other one) didn’t think they had hit it properly. On 9 August 1941 Fiedorczuk was credited with 0-0-1 109 during Circus 68, then on 21 October 1941 with 0-1-0 109 during a sweep over St Omer.
He was a lucky survivor of a number of mishaps in France and Britain. On 27 March he was the only one to return home from a sortie during which his flight was virtually wiped out through bad luck (two pilots were killed in a collision, two other ditched through lack of fuel, only one of them surviving). He then suffered accidents or combat damage on 6 April, 24 May, 9 and 16 August, 21 and 24 October 1941, and was eventually killed in a low flying accident (in Spitfire V BL751 PK-Z) on 15 August 1942 at Southport. He is buried in the RC cemetery at Formby, Lancs, grave 1-17a.
Franciszek Kornicki’s memoirs about to be published in English (“The Struggle” is the title of the book, IIRC) has some recollections of Fiedorczuk and his tragic death.

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