AR banner
Search Tips Advanced Search
Back to Top

Info LogoAdd to or correct this story with a few clicks.
Archive Report: Allied Forces

Compiled from official National Archive and Service sources, contemporary press reports, personal logbooks, diaries and correspondence, reference books, other sources, and interviews.
Check our Research databases: Database List
.
We seek additional information and photographs. Please contact us via the Helpdesk.
306 squadron crest
29.08.1941 No. 306 Squadron Spitfire IIb P8507 UZ-Z Sq/Ldr. Slonski-Ostoja

Operation:Circus 88

Date: 29th August 1941 (Friday)

Unit:No. 306 Squadron (Polish)

Type: Spitfire IIb

Serial: P8507 (1)

Coded: UZ-Z

Location: Hazerbrouck, Northern France.

Pilot:Sq/Ldr. Jerzy Karol Józef Sloński-Ostoja P-0717 Polish Air Force Age 31. Killed

REASON FOR LOSS:

Shot down over Hazerbrouck, Northern France by Me109 and killed.

He had 4 confirmed kills:

Me109 - 17th June 1941
Me109 - 23rd July 1941
Me109 x 2 - 14th August 1941

(1) P8507 Purchased by the public of Bermuda - public donations - named 'Bermuda 1'

Spitfire IIb P8507 Crash site (courtesy Piotr Wiśniewski)

                     

Burial Details:

Sq/Ldr. Jerzy Karol Józef Sloński-Ostoja. Dunkirk Cemetery Grave No. 18. Row. 2/2. 

Further information: Born on 20th July 1910. From Tamów, Poland. He had two brothers Bogdan and Marek, sadly both were also killed serving in the airforce. (Bogdan with 58 OTU Spitfire I X4251 - Training exercise 30th October 1941 - Marek with 540 Squadron Mosquito XI LR512 - Air test 9th February 1944)

Researched by Peter Sikora with additional information added by webmaster.

Pages of Outstanding Interest
History Airborne Forces •  Soviet Night Witches •  Bomber Command Memories •  Abbreviations •  Gardening Codenames
CWGC: Your Relative's Grave Explained •  USA Flygirls •  Axis Awards Descriptions •  'Lack Of Moral Fibre'
Concept of Colonial Discrimination  •  Unauthorised First Long Range Mustang Attack
RAAF Bomb Aimer Evades with Maquis •  SOE Heroine Nancy Wake •  Fane: Motor Racing PRU Legend
Acknowledgements
Sources used by us in compiling Archive Reports include: Bill Chorley - 'Bomber Command Losses Vols. 1-9, plus ongoing revisions', Dr. Theo E.W. Boiten and Mr. Roderick J. Mackenzie - 'Nightfighter War Diaries Vols. 1 and 2', Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt - 'Bomber Command War Diaries', Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Tom Kracker - Kracker Luftwaffe Archives, Michel Beckers, Major Fred Paradie (RCAF) and MWO François Dutil (RCAF) - Paradie Archive (on this site), Jean Schadskaje, Major Jack O'Connor USAF (Retd.), Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik and Józef Zieliński - 'Ku Czci Połeglyçh Lotnikow 1939-1945', Archiwum - Polish Air Force Archive (on this site), Anna Krzystek, Tadeusz Krzystek - 'Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii', Franek Grabowski, Norman L.R. Franks 'Fighter Command Losses', Stan D. Bishop, John A. Hey MBE, Gerrie Franken and Maco Cillessen - Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces, Vols 1-6, Dr. Theo E.W. Boiton - Nachtjagd Combat Archives, Vols 1-13. Aircrew Remembered Databases and our own archives. We are grateful for the support and encouragement of CWGC, UK Imperial War Museum, Australian War Memorial, Australian National Archives, New Zealand National Archives, UK National Archives and Fold3 and countless dedicated friends and researchers across the world.
Click any image to enlarge it

 Click to add your info via ticket on Helpdesk •Click to let us know via ticket on Helpdesk• Click to buy research books from Amazon •Click to explore the entire site
If you would like to comment on this page, please do so via our Helpdesk. Use the Submit a Ticket option to send your comments. After review, our Editors will publish your comment below with your first name, but not your email address.

A word from the Editor: your contribution is important. We welcome your comments and information. Thanks in advance.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember them. - Laurence Binyon
All site material (except as noted elsewhere) is owned or managed by Aircrew Remembered and should not be used without prior permission.
© Aircrew Remembered 2012 - 2024 Last Modified: 18 September 2015, 21:54

Monitor Additions/Changes?Click to be informed of changes to this page. Create account for first monitor only, thereafter very fast. Click to close without creating monitor