Remembering Today 18/10/40 Pilot S.Wapniarek (Of Poland) Royal Air Force 302 Squadron

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    PORUCZNIK STEFAN WAPNIAREK
    Service Number: P/1291
    Regiment & Unit/Ship
    Polish Air Force

    302 Sqdn.

    Date of Death
    Died 18 October 1940

    Age 24 years old

    Buried or commemorated at
    NORTHWOOD CEMETERY

    Service Section H Grave 268.

    United Kingdom
    Country of Service Polish

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    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Battle of Britain London Monument - P/O S Wapniarek

    On 13th September Wapniarek went to Duxford with a 302 detachment, to operate with the Bader Big Wing. He destroyed a Ju88 on 18th September. The detachment returned to Leconfield on the 25th.

    After a patrol in bad weather conditions on 18th October 1940, he was killed attempting a forced-landing at Nutwood Farm, Thames Ditton in Hurricane P3872.

    Wapniarek was 24.
     

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