1943 Gibraltar Liberator AL523 crash

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On 4 July 1943, a Liberator II aircraft crashed off Gibraltar shortly after takeoff, killing all but one of the seventeen people on board. Among the victims were several senior Polish military leaders, including General Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile. The plane's pilot was the only survivor.

Sikorski's Liberator, lying on its back in the sea just off Gibraltar following the crash

Biuletyn Informacyjny from 15 July 1943 News of the death of General Władysław Sikorski and the order for a national day of mourning.

A memorial stone for the 50th anniversary of the 1943 Gibraltar air crash at the Powązki Military Cemetery.

Memorial plaque dedicated to Sikorski located at the end of the Great Siege Tunnels in Gibraltar

Władysław Sikorski

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Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski was a Polish military and political leader.

Sikorski, c. 1942

Sikorski in his youth

Sikorski in 1923

Sikorski with Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch (1923)