Studiegroep Luchtoorlog 1939-1945

Loss Register


Loss chart: T1672
Day or Night of operation Operation Target Nickname Aircraft
2/3 Jul 42 Bombing Bremen
Factory Aircraft Mk Serial/Wnr. Code Unit Air Force TO/t Airfield
Vickers Wellington IV Z1314 GR-M 301 Sqdn RAF 2312 Hemswell
Time Cause of the Crash Crash Location Damage Province
0126 Shot down by Hptm. H. Lent of Stab II./NJG2 Crashed behind a farm along Koesteeg near Borger Drenthe
Function Mil Rank Ini Name Age Mil reg Air Force Fate Cemetery Grave Remarks
Pilot W/Cdr. H. Brzozowski 34 P-1059 PAF EVD-POW - Captured 5 Jul 1942 near Assen
Observer F/O. S. Atenski P-1147 PAF POW -
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner P/O. M. Benoit 21 P-1540 PAF POW - Captured at Assen
Front Gunner Sgt. S.M. Kowalczyk 792234 PAF POW -
Rear Gunner Sgt. S. Kedzierski 37 780181 PAF KIA Breda Polish War Cem R 19
Wartime Records Background Info
Operations Record Book Chorley, ‘Bomber Command Losses 1942’, page 146; Boiten, ‘Nachtjagd Combat Archive May-December 1942’, page 43; 'Wespennest Leeuwarden I', page 285; TNA WO344/25/2 for details Benoit; WO344/45/2 for Brzozowski

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