MOST SECRET
M.I.9/S/P.G. (Poland) 1589.

ESCAPED FROM POLAND via GERMANY and FRANCE to SPAIN.
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MOST SECRET

        Captured: Near BREST, 21 Aug 42.                         Escaped: JAWORZNO (Poland), 10 Jun 43
        Left: GIBRALATR, 29 Nov 43.                                Arrived: WHITCHURCH, 30 Nov 43.

        Date of Birth: 19 Sep 23.                                           Peacetime profession: Student.
        R.A.F. Service: since 15 Sep 41.
        O.T.U.                      No. 17 (BRAMCOTE)             Private Address: 8 Citie Dienat,
        Post in crew: Rear gunner.                                                                    MONTLUGON,
                                                                                                                    Department ALLIER,
                                                                                                                    FRANCE.

1942

20 Aug
Came down in sea off
BREST.

21 Aug
Picked by French boat

  
     Other members of crew:
F/O BOROWSKI (first pilot)
F/O LINTZEL (observer)
Sgt. BARSZCZ (second pilot)
Sgt. PELC (wireless operator)
Sgt. RATAJSKI (front gunner)
                All the mebers of the crew are P/W.

1. CAPTURE.
   I was a member of the crew of a Wellington aircraft which took off from HEMSWELL about 2100 hrs. on 20 Aug 42 on a mine-laying operation off BREST. Near BREST, while flying very low, we were hit by flak and lost speed and height, and eventually came down in the sea about five miles off the coast. Sgt. RATAJSKI was injured when the plane hit the sea.

   We all got into dinghy. We were all night at sea, and about 0600 hrs. (21 Aug) we were picked up by a French fishing boat. We asked the crew to land us in SPAIN, but they said they knew they were being watch from the shore by the Germans. They took us to a small fishing port near BREST. two Germans guards took us from the boat to a room in the village in what appeared to be a local headquarters.

INTERVIEWED by M.I.9. and A.I.1(k)  7 Oct  42.            APPENDIX A -  List of helpers
                                                                                            Distribution: I.S.9. M.I.6. (D). 
Distribution of this report:                                                                                  
D.D.M.I.(P/W). M.I.9. I.S.9. (2 copies)                               APPENDIX C - Escape information
M.I.9. (d). M.I.6. (D). M.O.1. (S.P.)                                    Distribution: D.D.M.I.(P/W). I.S.9.  M.I.6 (D)
A.I.1. (a) P.W. A.I.1.(K) M.I.19.(a). File.                            
C.I.O., H.Q. Bomber Command, R.A.F.                              APPENDIX D - Equipment and Training.
   "          "     Fighter Commnad, R.A.F.                                Distribution:  M.I.9. (d). I.S.9. File.
   "          "     Coastal Commnad, R.A.F.                                                                 
   "          "     Army Co-operation Commnad, R.A.F.