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#	Name* (↑)	First Names	Rank	RAF Equivalent Rank	Service No.	Born	Nationality	Role	Awards	Air Force (↑)	Command (↑)	Unit (↑)	DateofIncident *See Note (↑)	Aircraft (↑)	Type	Serial	Code	Base	Time	Mission	Incident	Fate	Commemorated	Referring Database	Notes
1	Kozlowski	Franciszek	Pilot Officer		P-76729			Pilot		PAF	Fighter	501 Sqd	1940-08-18	Hurricane	I	P3815				Patrol	Shot down near Canterbury	Wounded		Archiwum Polish Database
2	Kozlowski	Czeslaw	Starszy Sierzant	Sergeant	P.784220	Born 1 Jul 1909 (Age 33)	Poland	Flight Engineer	DFC	PAF	Bomber Command	138 Sqd (Special)	1942-10-01	Halifax	II	W7776	NF-B	Tempsford	1800	SOE	This a/c and its crew was briefed to locate Drop Zone RAK 206, which was 1km to the south of Siedlce, Poland; this was also an operation flight known as "Operation Chisel". The a/c also carried some bombs and incendiaries to top up it's maximum allowed weight. All appears to have gone well outbound. The crew took a slightly longer time than planned to find this drop zone, it was located and the agents and equipment were dropped. The bombs were released over railway targets in the area, the a/c then made for home. During the return flight the a/c must have strayed of course slightly and by the time they reached the Yorkshire Coast it was about out of fuel having crossed the coast too far north than was intended. The lack of fuel prevented the crew from locating an airfield and in fact the a/c was so low on fuel that the engines stopped as the pilot began to carry out the forced-landing in a field over-looking the North Sea near Goldsborough, to the north of Whitby at 0730hrs. The a/c had been in the air for almost thirteen and a half hours. The landing was not 100% successful, it ended up in two pieces but the airmen were all safe with no injuries reported. (Aircraft Accidents in Yorkshire)	Survived, Killed on active service 29 Oct 1942		Archiwum Polish Database	Read Archive Report Also lost were 3 'Agents' - Wieslaw Szpakowicz "Pak", Stanislaw Hencel "Pik". Jerzy Bichniewicz "Bleckitny" 138 SOE Operation Halifax II W7773. After the war all crew reinterred in collective grave 11-B-8 in Oslo Western Civil Cemetery.
3	Kozlowski	Czeslaw	Starszy Sierzant	Sergeant	P.784220	Born 1 Jul 1909 (Age 33)	Poland	Air Gunner		PAF	Special Duties - Bomber Command	138 Sqd (Special)	1942-10-29	Handley Page Halifax	II	W7773	NF-S	Tempsford	1700	SOE	Aircraft crashed at Hellern, Refsland, Norway. Location : Norway.Believed shot down by fighter over Bay of Biscay	Killed	PAF Memorial, Northolt, Egersund Cemetery, Norway. Plot ll, Row B, Communal Grave 8	Archiwum Polish Database	Read Archive Report Also lost were 3 'Agents' - Wieslaw Szpakowicz "Pak", Stanislaw Hencel "Pik". Jerzy Bichniewicz "Bleckitny" 138 SOE Operation Halifax II W7773. After the war all crew reinterred in collective grave 11-B-8 in Oslo Western Civil Cemetery.
4	Kozlowski	Franciszek	Porucznik Pilot	Flying Officer (Flight Lieutenant?)	P.76729	Born 14 April 1917 (Age 25)	Poland	Pilot		PAF	Fighter Command	316 Sqd (Polish)	1943-03-13	Supermarine Spitfire	IX	EN171		RAF Northolt		Ramrod	Crashed near Neufchatel-en-Bray, France. Location : France.	Killed on Operational Flight	PAF Memorial, Northolt, Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery, Hautot-Sur-Mer - Seine-Maritime, France. Row H Grave 36	Archiwum Polish Database

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